Constructing Christopher Marlowe

Constructing Christopher Marlowe / edited by J.A. Downie and J.T. Parnell.

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...

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Other Authors: Downie, J. A. (James Alan), 1951-, Parnell, J. T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Marlowe, Christopher, > 1564-1593 > Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Marlowe: facts and fictions / J.A. Downie
  • Marlowe and the Rose / Julian M.C. Bowsher
  • Marlowe and the editors / Richard Proudfoot
  • Marlowe and the metaphysics of magicians / Gareth Roberts
  • Marlowe's 'theatre of cruelty' / Janet Clare
  • Marlowe onstage: the deaths of the author / Lois Potter
  • A bit of ruff: criticism, fantasy, Marlowe / Simon Shepherd
  • 'Writ in blood': Marlowe and the new historicists / Richard Wilson
  • Hero and Leander: the arbitariness of desire / Claude J. Summers
  • Gender and voice in Hero and Leander / Georgia E. Brown
  • Marlowe's politic women / Joanna Gibbs
  • Edward II, Derek Jarman, and the state of England / Lawrence Normand.

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