Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Author: Sara Munson Deats

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1317080351

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Focusing upon Marlowe the playwright as opposed to Marlowe the man, the essays in this collection position the dramatist's plays within the dramaturgical, ethical, and sociopolitical matrices of his own era. The volume also examines some of the most heated controversies of the early modern period, such as the anti-theatrical debate, the relations between parents and children, Machiavaelli1s ideology, the legitimacy of sectarian violence, and the discourse of addiction. Some of the chapters also explore Marlowe's polysemous influence on the theater of his time and of later periods, but, most centrally, upon his more famous contemporary poet/playwright, William Shakespeare.

History Play
History Play

Author: Rodney Bolt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2005-09-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1596910208

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Elaborates on the theory that celebrated English playwright Christopher Marlowe staged his own death and subsequently became known as William Shakespeare, in a speculative biography that describes Elizabethan political intrigue.

The World of Christopher Marlowe
The World of Christopher Marlowe

Author: David Riggs

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1466862343

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The definitive biography: a masterly account of Marlowe's work and life and the world in which he lived Shakespeare's contemporary, Christopher Marlowe revolutionized English drama and poetry, transforming the Elizabethan stage into a place of astonishing creativity. The outline of Marlowe's life, work, and violent death are known, but few of the details that explain why his writing and ideas made him such a provocateur in the Elizabethan era have been available until now. In this absorbing consideration of Marlowe and his times, David Riggs presents Marlowe as the language's first poetic dramatist whose desires proved his undoing. In an age of tremendous cultural change in Europe when Cervantes wrote the first novel and Copernicus demonstrated a world subservient to other nonreligious forces, Catholics and Protestants battled for control of England and Elizabeth's crown was anything but secure. Into this whirlwind of change stepped Marlowe espousing sexual freedom and atheism. His beliefs proved too dangerous to those in power and he was condemned as a spy and later murdered. In The World of Christopher Marlowe, Riggs's exhaustive research digs deeply into the mystery of how and why Marlowe was killed.

Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe

Author: Mrs Vivien Thomas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1134783124

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This major work brings together, for the first time in a single volume, all the recognized sources of Marlowe's dramatic work. Many of the forty-two texts presented here are of outstanding interest in their own right. Together they illuminate the cultural milieu which fostered Marlowe's talent, and deepen our appreciation of his dramatic methods. * Each of the texts is accessibly presented for the modern reader and is fully annotated. * Works in Latin or foreign vernaculars are translated, many for the first time, and modern spelling and punctuation are used throughout. * The sources for each play are examined individually and are thoroughly edited. Few libraries provide the range of sources contained in this one volume. The editors include texts of works such as the English Faust-Book from which Marlowe borrowed heavily, and provide substantial extracts from other books with which he was no doubt familiar. This book is an invaluable resource for all those interested in Marlowe and the development of Elizabethan theatre.

Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays
Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays

Author: Christopher Marlowe

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-06-13

Total Pages: 699

ISBN-13: 1472573870

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This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Christopher Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus. The new introduction by Brian Gibbons explores the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as examining their language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes guide students to a better understanding and combine to make this an indispensable student edition ideal for study and classroom use from A Level upwards.

Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatist
Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatist

Author: Lisa Hopkins

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0748630589

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This book offers a lively introduction to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe and to the central concerns of his age, many of which are still important to us--religious uncertainty, the clash between Islam and Christianity, ideas of sexuality, and the role of the marginalised inidividual in society.Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of Marlowe's work and its cultural contexts: Marlowe's life and death; the Marlowe canon; the theatrical contexts and stage history of the plays; Marlowe's interest in old and new branches of knowledge; the ways in which he transgresses against established norms and values; and the major issues which have been raised in critical discussions of his plays.

The Plays
The Plays

Author: Christopher Marlowe

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 9781840221305

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The plays collected in this text provide the reader with a clear picture of Marlowe as a radical theatrical poet of great linguistic and dramatic daring, whose characters constantly strive to break out of the social, religious, and rhetorical binds within which they are confined.

Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Author: Sara Munson Deats

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Some facets of these plays explored in this study include the asymmetry of gender; the representation of gender as natural and universal or as discursively constructed; the reinforcement or subversion of traditional gender traits, gender principles, and gender structures; and the relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality, terms too often conflated in postmodern and early modern parlance.