Death's Jest Book (Thomas Lovell Beddoes, 1850)

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Death's Jest-Book is the extravagant expression of Thomas Lovell Beddoes' lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality, a surrealising of Renaissance revenge tragedy, alight with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting. Conceived as a satirical tragedy unmasking the terror of death, it contains some of the most powerful dramatic blank verse by any of the British Romantics.

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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a projectto make the world’s books discoverable online.

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