Marlovian Tragedy
Marlovian Tragedy

Author: Troni Y. Grande

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780838753743

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This re-visioning of the Marlowe canon aims to explain the ambiguous effects that readers have long associated with Marlowe's signature. Marlovian tragedy has been inadequately theorized because Marlowe has too often been set under the giant shadow of Shakespeare. Grande, by contrast, takes Marlowe on his own terms and demonstrates how he achieves his notorious moral ambiguity through the rhetorical technique of dilation or amplification. All of Marlowe's plays end in the conventional tragic way, with death. But each play, as well as Hero and Leander, repeatedly evokes the reader's expectations of a tragic end only to defer them, dilating the moment of pleasure so that the protagonists can dally before the "law" of tragedy.

Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose
Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2001-09-24

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1770480706

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At her death in 1825, Anna Letitia Barbauld was considered one of the great writers of her time. Distinguished as a poet and essayist, she was also in innovator in children’s literature, an eloquent supporter of liberal politics, and a literary critic of stature. This edition includes a generous selection of her poetry and the first comprehensive body of her prose in more than a century, with essays—some never before reprinted—on literature, religion, education, prejudice, women’s fashions, and class conflict.