MACABRE

Macabre is a term applied to a certain type of artistic or literary composition, characterized by a grim and ghastly humour, with an insistence on the details and trappings of death. Such a quality, deliberately adopted, is hardly to be found in ancient Greek and Latin writers, though there are traces of it in Apuleius and the author of the Satyricon.

Bibliography

Peignot, Recherches sur les danses des marts (1826); Douce, Dissertation on the Dance of Death (1833); Massmann, Litteratur der Totentanze (1840); J. Charlier de Gerson, La Danse macabre des Stes Innocents de Paris (1874); ,Seelmann, Die Totentanze des

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