The Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13:
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History Play
Author: Rodney Bolt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2005-09-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1596910208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElaborates 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.
Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Author: Sara Munson Deats
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1317080351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing 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.
Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatist
Author: Lisa Hopkins
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2008-04-17
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0748630589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 World of Christopher Marlowe
Author: David Riggs
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2014-01-07
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 1466862343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Massacre at Paris
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 104
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Author: Park Honan
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2007-08-16
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0191622796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous 'putative portrait' of Marlowe at Cambridge. The biography uses for the first time the Latin writings of his friend Thomas Watson to illuminate Marlowe's life in London and his career as a spy (that is, as a courier and agent for the Elizabethan Privy Council). There are new accounts of him on the continent, particularly at Flushing or Vlissingen, where he was arrested. The book also more fully explains Marlowe's relations with his chief patron, Thomas Walsingham, than ever before. This is also the first biography to explore in detail Marlowe's relations with fellow playwrights such as Kyd and Shakespeare, and to show how Marlowe's relations with Shakespeare evolved from 1590 to 1593. With closer views of him in relation to the Elizabethan stage than have appeared in any biography, the book examines in detail his aims, mind, and techniques as exhibited in all of his plays, from Dido, the Tamburlaine dramas, and Doctor Faustus through to The Jew of Malta and Edward II. It offers new treatments of his evolving versions of 'The Passionate Shepherd', and displays circumstances, influences, and the bearings of Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis' in relation to Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander'. Throughout, there is a strong emphasis on Marlowe's friendships and so-called 'homosexuality'. Fresh information is brought to bear on his seductive use of blasphemy, his street fights, his methods of preparing himself for writing, and his atheism and religious interests. The book also explores his attraction to scientists and mathematicians such as Thomas Harriot and others in the Ralegh-Northumberland set of thinkers and experimenters. Finally, there is new data on spies and business agents such as Robert Poley, Nicholas Skeres, and Ingram Frizer, and a more exact account of the circumstances that led up to Marlowe's murder.
The Works of Christopher Marlowe
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher:
Published: 1885
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade
Author: Kirk Melnikoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1108642063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe's complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe's work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful chapters consider Marlowe's deliberate engagements with the stage and print culture, the agents and methods involved in the transmission of his work, and his cultural reception in the light of repertory and print evidence. With contributions from major international scholars, the volume considers all of Marlowe's oeuvre, offering illuminating approaches to his extended animation in theatre and print, from the putative theatrical debut of Tamburlaine in 1587 to the most current editions of his work.
Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2008-07-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780199537068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
