Death's Jest-book: Or, the Day Will ComeDrama. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Edited and with an introduction by Alan Halsey. This renaissance-revival comedy was first published in 1849, a year after Thomas Lovell Beddoes' death. "Beddoes called his play 'A Dithyrambic in the florid Gothic style.' Modeled on the revenge tragedies of the Jacobeans, it is sustained by a poetry of glittering surface with an ever-present undertow of death and destruction, tempered by humor deriving out of a remorseless sense of absurdity and alienation. Beddoes was certainly 'possessed by death' but death is a theme played in several keys, allowing startling reversals of common values and perspectives" -- Alan Halsey, Introduction. |
Contents
Beddoes Notes Dedicatory Stanzas Preface c 141 | |
Persons Represented in the y Text 152 | |
Unplaced Fragments Published in the Kelsall | |
Copyright | |
Common terms and phrases
Adalm Adalmar Amala Athulf beauty Beddoes blood body bones breath bring brother buried called comes dare dead Death delight doth dream drink Duke earth Enter Exit eyes fair fall farewell fear fellow flowers fool ghost give grave hand hast hate hath hear heard heart heaven hold hope hour human I'll Isbr Isbrand keep King lady leave lies light lips live look Mandr MANDRAKE Melveric Methinks murderer nature never night o'er once pale pity play poor rest round SCENE secret seen Sibyl Sibylla Siegfried sing slave sleep smile Song soon soul speak spirit stand stars sweet tears thank thee There's thine things Thorw THORWALD thou thou art thou'rt thought true unto voice Wilt wine wish Wolfr Wolfram Ziba