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Article: Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning.(Review)
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- September 22, 2000
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Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning by Christina Britzolakis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. 250. $60.00, cloth.
Sylvia Plath wrote intensely and died immensely Her poems constructed stunning psychological landscapes and exhibited a verbal complexity rare in twentieth-century poetry. In death she achieved an iconic status usually reserved for celebrity suicides, political assassinations, and royal car crashes. Her texts and her death helped to shape private and public mourning in her time, and they continue to do so today Now Christina Britzolakis has written an important new book that attempts to make sense of textual patterns in Plath's writing while ...