The Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance by Robert N. Watson

The Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance

Robert N. Watson

430 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as...

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