The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe

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Patrick Cheney
Cambridge University Press, 15.07.2004 - 312 Seiten
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and of Ovidian narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such masterpieces of tragedy and lyric as Doctor Faustus and 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'. Sixteen leading scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on Marlowe's life, texts, style, politics, religion, and classicism. The volume also considers his literary and patronage relationships and his representations of sexuality and gender and of geography and identity; his presence in modern film and theatre; and finally his influence on subsequent writers. The Companion includes a chronology of Marlowe's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.

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Introduction Marlowe in the twentyfirst century
1
Marlowes life
24
Marlovian texts and authorship
41
Marlowe and style
55
Marlowe and the politics of religion
70
Marlowe and the English literary scene
90
Marlowes poems and classicism
106
Tamburlaine the Great Parts One and Two
127
Doctor Faustus
174
Dido Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris
193
Tragedy patronage and power
207
Geography and identity in Marlowe
231
Marlowes men and women gender and sexuality
245
Marlowe in theatre and film
262
Marlowes reception and influence
282
Reference works
297

The Jew of Malta
144
Edward II
158

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Patrick Cheney is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood (1997) and Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career (1993).

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