John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works

by Cook, Megan L.
ISBN: 9781580443807
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Overview

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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Cook, Megan L.
  • ISBN: 9781580443807
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 208
  • Publication Year: 2019
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)