附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-408) and index.
Religio vindicis : substitution and immortality in the Spanish tragedy -- Giving up the ghost : Hamlet, revenge, and denial -- Comic means, tragic ends : false immortality in Measure for measure -- Another day, "another Golgotha" : Macbeth and the tyranny of nature -- Duelling death in the lyrics of love : John Donne's poetics of immortality -- Word without end : the comforts of George Herbert's Temple -- Epilogue : The deaths of two women [Katherine Brettargh and Mary Gunter].