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Frontmatter, Contents, and Preface
1. Death Takes a Grisly Shape: Medieval and
Renaissance Iconography
2. Answering the Summons: The Art of Dying
3. Death Takes to the Stage: The Mystery Cycles
and Early Moralities
4. Death as Educator: Everyman
5. Death Takes an Alias: The Late Moralities
and the Secular Mode
6. Medieval Summons, Renaissance Response:
Tamburlaine, Parts I and II
7. The Summons to Hell: Doctor Faustus
8. The Kindly Summons: Measure for
Measure
9. The Summons of Nothingness: The
Duchess of Malfi
10. Momento Mockery: The Old Iconography
Begins to Slip
11. A Choice of Deaths: The Last Decades of
Renaissance Theater