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Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage

Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage

Goodman, Jessica

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Literary CriticismDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 1781886903
ISBN13: 9781781886908
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Jun 16 2025
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who will live (and die) again. Spanning six centuries and seven countries, this study considers how different dramatic authors have engaged with this tension, examining the representation of death as theme and practice; culturally-inflected symbol and never-ending ending. In tracing how Western authors since the sixteenth century have played with and against classical notions of endings and closure, these essays explore the potential and limits of the physical stage for confronting human mortality.

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