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This volume includes most of the important modern commentaries on Christopher Marlowe. It is the first major collection of criticism on this epoch-making Elizabethan poet and dramatist. The writers represented here call attention to his comic and ironic overtones, the allegorical and moral strains running through his plots, his lurking awareness of the horror in the world. These critics emphasize also Marlowe's skill as a practical dramatist and deplore...

"This collection seeks to expand the critical perspectives of Marlowe scholarship by bringing together essays that examine diverse aspects of Marlowe's artistry, while simultaneously embedding his poems and plays within their theatrical, cultural, and social milieux. The essays in the first section of the collection adopt theater history and performance theory to position Marlowe's plays within the theatrical context of both his day and our own. Although...

Their texts fully restored by recent scholarship, Marlowe's astonishing works can now be appreciated as originally written. This edition includes all of Marlowe's plays, including two versions of Doctor Faustus.

From Greene's 'mad and scoffing poet' to Greenblatt's flaunter of his 'society's cherished orthodoxies', Marlowe's putative personality has licensed and informed disparate and often conflicting readings of his writings. This book illustrates and challenges the ways in which the writer has been constructed by the prejudices of readers, critics and directors. Taking nothing on trust, the contributors to this volume review what is known about Marlowe's...

Christopher Marlowe was one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. This book considers topics such as his life, texts, style, politics, religion and classicism, as well as his representations of sexuality and gender, geography and identity.

"Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) is portrayed in most accounts of his life by biographers and critics as a mysterious and sensational action figure, a hapless pawn of circumstance, or a pseudonymous cipher. Constance Brown Kuriyama's biography reconstructs the eventful life of a radically innovative playwright who flourished briefly and died violently more than four hundred years ago, yet persists in the romantic imagination even today." "Many discoveries...

"Christopher Marlowe was the most successful dramatist of his time, his premature death cutting short a career that may well have rivalled Shakespeare's. His four major works (Doctor Faustus, Edward II, The Jew of Malta and Tamburlaine) are remarkable pieces of theatre, daring explorations of the nature of kingship, salvation and damnation, sexuality, and ethnic prejudice. This book looks in depth and extracts from each of the plays, exploring them...