John Lydgate's 'Dance of Death' and Related Works

Megan L. Cook, Elizaveta Strakhov (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2019
Medieval Institute Publications (Verlag)
978-1-58044-380-7 (ISBN)

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This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these poems showcase the power of the danse macabre motif, offering a window into life and death in late medieval Europe. In vivid, often grotesque, and darkly humorous terms, these poems ponder life's fundamental paradox: while we know that we all must die, we cannot imagine our own death.

Megan L. Cook is an Assistant Professor of English at Colby College. Elizaveta Strakhov is an assistant professor of English at Marquette University.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

John Lydgate, Dance of Death: A version (Selden)

John Lydgate, Dance of Death: B version (Lansdowne)

Other Late Medieval Poems about Death

Poems in the Dance of Death Tradition

La Danse macabre, translation by Elizaveta Strakhov

Explanatory Notes

Textual Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

Erscheinungsdatum	27.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
Sprache	englisch; English, Middle (1100-1500)
Maße	210 x 260 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-58044-380-X / 158044380X
ISBN-13	978-1-58044-380-7 / 9781580443807
Zustand	Neuware