Name: John Lydgate's 'Dance of Death' and Related Works
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Author: Cook, Megan L. ; Strakhov, Elizaveta
ISBN: 9781580443814

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

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Medieval Institute Publications

Author

Cook, Megan L. ; Strakhov, Elizaveta

Pages

208

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

25.8 x 20.2 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9781580443814

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

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.