Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage

Jessica Goodman

Last Scene of All
Representing Death on the Western Stage

Edited by Jessica Goodman

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13 September 2022 • 210pp

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Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who will live (and die) again. Spanning six centuries and seven countries, this study considers how different dramatic authors have engaged with this tension, examining the representation of death as theme and practice; culturally-inflected symbol and never-ending ending. In tracing how Western authors since the sixteenth century have played with and against classical notions of endings and closure, these essays explore the potential and limits of the physical stage for confronting human mortality.

Jessica Goodman is Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in French at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

See news item: Dying in the Night (27 June 2021)

Contents:

1	Introduction Jessica Goodman	Cite
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2	Death on Stage: A Never-Ending Ending Jessica Goodman	Cite
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3	Killing Coligny: Staging the Admiral’s Death in Sixteenth-Century France and England Jonathan Patterson	Cite
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4	Corneille’s Aggressive Suicides: Rodogune and Théodore Joseph Harris	Cite
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5	‘’Tis Gallia’s hopeless Queen!’: Resurrecting the Dead in John Philip Kemble’s Macbeth (1794) Sarah Burdett	Cite
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6	Crypts, Corpses, and Living Tombs on Stage during the French Revolution: Crises of Burial and Mourning Cecilia Feilla	Cite
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7	Twilight for a Myth: Images of Death in Luigi Pirandello’s The Mountain Giants Stefano Giannini	Cite
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8	The (Un)performability of Death and Violence on Stage Dominic Glynn	Cite
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9	Rewriting Death on Stage: Two Recent British Productions of Lorca’s Rural Tragedies María Bastianes	Cite
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10	Death of Tragedy: Modernist Drama and the Sense of a Non-Ending Barry Murnane	Cite
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11	‘Much like at home’: The Quiet Eloquence of Death in Our Town (Thornton Wilder) and Eurydice (Sarah Ruhl) Julie Vatain-Corfdir	Cite
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12	‘The whole point of living is preparing to die’: Dying into Death in Tragic Drama Fiona Macintosh	Cite
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Goodman, Jessica (ed.), Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage (Legenda, 2022)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Last Scene of All: Representing Death on the Western Stage, ed. by Jessica Goodman (Legenda, 2022), p. 21.

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Last Scene of AllRepresenting Death on the Western Stage

Edited by Jessica Goodman

Last Scene of All
Representing Death on the Western Stage