The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on Stage

The Final Curtain: The Art of Dying on StageIt is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in which playwrights wrote about death and attitudes towards death in their cultures. Nevertheless, the emphasis is on the practice of acting.

Fully updated to take account of the recent French

immortality

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Christoph Menke

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Part of the Intellect Live series

material culture and the history of medicine

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