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Contents

Vol. 19 No. 24   ·   11 December 1997

On the Way in which Tragedy ‘Openeth up the Greatest Wounds and Showeth forth the Ulcers that are Covered with Tissue’

Terence Hawkes: Early Modern Death

  • Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy by Michael Neill

Letters

David Craig, Graham Nelson, V.K. Mina, Luigi Romeo, Inigo Thomas, Katharine Weber, John Coombes, Margaret McHugh, Jeremy Bernstein

Contributors

Terence Hawkes is an emeritus professor of English at Cardiff University and general editor of the Accents on Shakespeare series. Shakespeare in the Present is due this year.
LRB cover artwork: Purple haze, audience

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On the Way in which Tragedy ‘Openeth up the Greatest Wounds and Showeth forth the Ulcers that are Covered with Tissue’
Terence Hawkes: Early Modern Death