Death's Jest Book

This book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes's defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death.

Michael Bradshaw is a lecturer in English at the Manchester Metropolitan University; he is the author of Resurrection Songs: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and co-editor of Beddoes's Selected Poetry; he has also published on George Darley, John Keats and Mary Shelley.

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Note on the Text Publication History Selected Bibliography Preface Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy Notes Editorial Notes The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society