Placing the Plays Of Christopher Marlowe : Cultural Contexts of His Plays
By: Deats, Sara Munson (Edited by), Logan, Robert A. (Edited by).
Ashgate Publishing Group. Published: 28/01/2008. Audience Guide: Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly.
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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 chapter 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. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0754662047/9780754662044
TITLE: Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
CONTRIBUTORS: Deats, Sara Munson (Edited by), Logan, Robert A. (Edited by)
IMPRINT: Ashgate
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 28/01/2008
SUBJECT: Literature, Literature, Performing Arts, History & Criticism, Plays & Playwrights, Theatre & Drama
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 156mm x 234mm
PAGES: 256
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
CONTENTS: Introduction: placing the plays of Christopher Marlowe: fresh cultural contexts, Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan; PartI; Marlowe and the Theater:'Mark this show': magic and theater in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Sara Munson Deats; Marlowe's Edward II and the early playhouse audiences, Ruth Lunney; Edmund Kean, anti-Semitism and The Jew of Malta, Stephanie Moss; Part II; Marlowe and the Family: The hopeless daughter of a hapless Jew: father and daughter in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Lagretta Tallent Lenker; A study in ambivalence: mothers and their sons in Christopher Marlowe, Joyce Karpay; Masculinity, performance, and identity: father/son dyads in Christopher Marlowe's plays, Merry G. Perry; Part III; Marlowe, Ethics and Religion: Almost famous, always iterable: Doctor Faustus as meme of academic performativity, Rick Bowers; Misbelief, false profession and The Jew of Malta, William M. Hamlin; Doctor Faustus and the early modern language of addiction, Deborah Willis; Rhetorical strategies for a locus terribilis: senses, signs, symbols, and theological allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris, Christine McCall Probes; Barabas and Charles I, John Parker; Part IV; Marlowe and Shakespeare: Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the theoretically irrelevant author, Constance Brown Kuriyama; 'Glutted with conceit': imprints of Doctor Faustus on The Tempest, Robert A. Logan; Christopher Marlowe: the late years, David Bevington; Bibliography; Index.
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