ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about the Thomas Lovell Beddoes, who was the most thoroughly trained and the most dedicated to medical study. His relationship with Kelsall, his radicalism, and specific interest in anatomy as an introduction to medicine would all have clear implications for Death's Jest-Book, which also had its genesis at Pembroke College. It focuses on the development of the multiple Deaths' Fools, and the fact that Beddoes deploys multiple versions at once. The paradox that informs the body's relation to the soul here that it incarnates mortality and immorality is further emphasized with the appearance of Ziba, a man of Afric bought from an Arab, who is skilled in the arts of necromancy. His extended tirades against the body's laws engender the clearest discussion of those laws outside the letters and the most vivid depiction of Death's Fooland the reasons for its ultimate failure.
