Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Fresh Cultural Contexts / Edition 1

by Sara Munson Deats, Robert A. Logan

Overview

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, Machiavaelli's 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754662044
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/28/2008
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sara Munson Deats is Distinguished University Professor of English, at the University of South Florida, USA. Robert A. Logan is Professor of English at the University of Hartford, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction, Sara Munson Deats, Robert A. Logan; Part 1 Marlowe and the Theater; Chapter 1 “Mark this show”, Sara Munson Deats; Chapter 2 Marlowe’s Edward II and the Early Playhouse Audiences, Ruth Lunney; Chapter 3 Edmund Kean, Anti-Semitism, and The Jew of Malta, Stephanie Moss; Part 2 Marlowe And The Family; Chapter 4 The Hopeless Daughter of a Hapless Jew, Lagretta Tallent Lenker; Chapter 5 A Study in Ambivalence, Joyce Karpay; Chapter 6 Masculinity, Performance, and Identity, Merry G. Perry; Part 3 Marlowe, Ethics, and Religion; Chapter 7 Almost Famous, Always Iterable, Rick Bowers; Chapter 8 Misbelief, False Profession, and The Jew of Malta, William M. Hamlin; Chapter 9 Doctor Faustus and the Early Modern Language of Addiction, Deborah Willis; Chapter 10 Rhetorical Strategies for a locus terribilis, Christine McCall Probes; Chapter 11 Barabas and Charles I, John Parker; Part 4 Marlowe and Shakespeare; Chapter 12 Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Theoretically Irrelevant Author, Constance Brown Kuriyama; Chapter 13 “Glutted with Conceit”, Robert A. Logan; Chapter 14 Christopher Marlowe, David Bevington;

Editorial Reviews

’Marlowe scholars will want to obtain this volume, and they will be rewarded by the presence of several thought-provoking essays. ...uniformly solid and clear, [...] especially useful to undergraduates approaching Marlowe's plays.’ Renaissance Quarterly

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