visions of doom from early modern tragedy to popular culture /
R.M. Christofides
New York :
Continuum,
c2012
xvii, 216 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
Continuum Shakespeare studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Reechy painting and the old church window -- Hamlet and the living dead -- Masochistic damnation in Othello -- Macbeth and the angels of doom -- The promised end of King Lear -- The end
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation
Apocalypse in literature
English drama (Tragedy)-- History and criticism
English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism