Tag: the lady’s tragedy

• “I depart laughing”: Living Death in the “The Lady’s Tragedy”

  

  Few plays explore the rich dramatic potential of living death as explicitly as Thomas Middleton’s The Lady’s Tragedy (or, The Second Maiden’s Tragedy, as the play is sometimes known), a tragedy that in the first three acts alone presents suicide, grave-robbing, defiled corpses, and ghosts. Middleton did *not* do these things by halves.

  James Alsop

  Feb 26, 2019

  Literature Essays + Analysis, Shakespeare + E-M Drama

  Early Modern, Hamlet, Living Death, second maiden’s tragedy, self-fashioning, Shakespeare, the lady’s tragedy, thomas middleton