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This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these poems showcase the power of the danse macabre motif, offering a window into life and death in late medieval Europe. In vivid, often grotesque, and darkly humorous terms, these poems ponder life's fundamental paradox: while we know that we all must die, we cannot imagine our own death.

John Lydgate's 'Dance of Death' and Related Works

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This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and... Read more

    Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
    Publication Date: 31/10/2019
    ISBN13: 9781580443807, 978-1580443807
    ISBN10: 158044380X

    Number of Pages: 208

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these poems showcase the power of the danse macabre motif, offering a window into life and death in late medieval Europe. In vivid, often grotesque, and darkly humorous terms, these poems ponder life's fundamental paradox: while we know that we all must die, we cannot imagine our own death.

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