Editors: John V. Nance and Christianne Cain Associate Editors: Anna Sicari, Anglie Lalla, Diana Castaldini, and Nevena Georgieva Faculty Advisors: Stephen Sicari and Granville Ganter Cover: De Humani Corporus Fabrica (1543) by Andreas Vesalius Back cover: “Flea Carying Yersinia Pestis” by Jordan Baum
Death in Early Modern Literature
Preface by John V. Nance
Preface by Christianne Cain
Preface by Anna Sicari
“I Will Encounter Darkness as a Bride”: Death and the Possibilities of Comedy in Measure for Measure by Paul Dustin Stegner
The Deaths of Kings and Other People: Comparing the Narratology of Mortality in Shakespeare and Modern Cinema by P. Aaron Potter
Writing Epitaphs for Death: The Work of Herbert’s “Church Monuments” and Donne’s “A Nocturnal” by Laura Kolb
“Paine and Patience”: The Deathbed Performances of Early Modern Women by Marissa R. Cull
The Death Drive in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra by Lynne M. Simpson
“Fearful Meditations”: Pondering Posterity in Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Brian Chalk
Immortal Longings and Common Lyings: Denials of Death, from Jacobean Literature to Modern Journalism by Robert Watson
Toward a Cultural Poetics of Early Modern Shipwreck by Steve Mentz
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