The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher MarloweUniversity of Delaware Press, 1999 - 283 Seiten McAdam illustrates how two fundamental points of destabilisation in Marlowe's life and work - his subversive treatment of Christian belief and his ambivalence toward his homosexuality - clarify the plays' interest in the struggle for self-authorisation. |
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Tenuous Manhood | 44 |
Tenuous Godhood | 73 |
The Exorcism of God | 112 |
The Failure of Carnal Identity | 146 |
The Exorcism of Machevil | 175 |
The Illusion of Integrity | 198 |
Conclusion | 232 |
Notes | 247 |
Bibliography | 271 |
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Abigail Aeneas Aeneas's Androgyny argues artistic assertion Augustinian B-text Barabas Barabas's becomes biblical burlaine character Christ Christian Christopher Marlowe Conflict and Coherence context critics cultural death Deats desire Dido Dido Queen Dido's divine Doctor Faustus Dollimore Donaldson Drama Edward Edward II Elizabethan English Studies fact failure fantasy Faustus's fear Ferneze final Gaveston Greenblatt Guise Guise's Hammer or Anvil hath Heinz Kohut Henry hero heroic homosexual human Ibid ideal identifies identity imagination irony Ithamore Jew of Malta kind king Kocher Kohut Kuriyama lowe's Machiavellian manly Marlovian Marlowe's Marlowe's plays Marlowe's The Jew masculine Massacre at Paris Mephistopheles mirror moral Mortimer Narcissism narcissistic natural Navarre Oedipal parody play's political psychological Queen of Carthage religious remarks Renaissance response rhetoric role scene seems self-assertion self-fashioning self-object sense sexual social soul speech spiritual Steane struggle Study suggests surrender Tamburlaine thee thou tion tragedy University Press Zenocrate
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Seite 133 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus ! leave these frivolous demands.
Seite 217 - And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? — Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.
Seite 228 - How fast they run to banish him I love! They would not stir, were it to do me good. Why should a king be subject to a priest ? Proud Rome! that hatchest such imperial grooms, For these thy superstitious taper-lights, Wherewith thy antichristian churches blaze, I'll fire thy crazed buildings, and enforce 1°° The papal towers to kiss the lowly ground!
Seite 74 - And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, ' We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, ' Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine ' Threatening the world with high astounding terms, ' And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Seite 128 - What art thou — the first? PRIDE. I am Pride. I disdain to have any parents. I am like to Ovid's flea: I can creep into every corner of a wench...
Seite 141 - Wertenberg, never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat...
Seite 135 - Faustus, since our conference about fair ladies, which was the beautifullest in all the world, we have determined with ourselves that Helen of Greece was the admirablest lady that ever lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us that...
Seite 139 - And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth ; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.