Constructing Christopher Marlowe
- Editors:
- J. A. Downie, Goldsmiths, University of London
- J. T. Parnell, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Date Published: November 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030519
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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 life, the publication of his plays, conditions in Elizabethan theatre, and his reputation among his contemporaries and late twentieth-century critics. Their essays challenge some preconceptions about Marlowe by tackling major aspects of his dramaturgy, his use of magic, the homoeroticism of the plays, his female characters, twentieth-century performances of his plays, and the radical nature of his narrative poem Hero and Leander. Together they contribute to the critical effort to construct a fuller understanding of the poet and playwright.
Read more- Re-examines the evidence about Marlowe's life and works, showing how little is known for certain
- Deconstructs critical preconceptions about Marlowe, including the agenda of recent 'New Historicist' criticism
- Attention to topics of current interest: homoeroticism, theatrical interpretations of the plays, female characters
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030519
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.382kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Editors' note
List of abbreviations
Introduction J. T. Parnell
1. Marlowe: facts and fictions J. A. Downie
2. Marlowe and the Rose Julian M. C. Bowsher
3. Marlowe and the editors Richard Proudfoot
4. Marlowe and the metaphysics of magicians Gareth Roberts
5. Marlowe's 'theatre of cruelty' Janet Clare
6. Marlowe onstage: the deaths of the author Lois Potter
7. A bit of ruff: criticism, fantasy, Marlowe Simon Shepherd
8. 'Writ in blood': Marlowe and the new historicists Richard Wilson
9. Hero and Leander: the arbitrariness of desire Claude J. Summers
10. Gender and voice in Hero and Leander Georgia E. Brown
11. Marlowe's politic women Joanna Gibbs
12. Edward II, Derek Jarman, and the state of English Lawrence Normand
Notes
Select bibliography of works cited
Index.
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