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work_qshmz6jaz5bxvc35tmoh5lit7e	Elizabeth Williamson	Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage. Maggie Vinter. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. viii + 214 pp. $28	2020	2	.pdf	application/pdf	955	60	55	Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage. Last Acts provides an abundance of evidence for the entanglement of secular and religious arts of dying and for drama's engagement with early modern debates about what it means to achieve "a good death." Vinter argues that drama consistently shows us political subjects playing an active role in their own deaths, contradicting the more modern Like many scholars of martyrology, she maintains that early modern attitudes toward death did not compartmentalize weakness and early modern political institutions that struggle to incorporate individuals into larger Although performance is, for the most part, not the focus of Vinter's book, this struck me as a Elizabeth Jocelin's 1624 Mother's Legacie, Clarissa, a David Bowie video, the famous and rational politics, Lerner aims to show how early modern poets "participate in or analyze fanaticism as a child of the Reformation central to the birth of modern politics,	./cache/work_qshmz6jaz5bxvc35tmoh5lit7e.pdf	./txt/work_qshmz6jaz5bxvc35tmoh5lit7e.txt