Accompanied by a critical introduction, a biographical chronology, incisive commentary, and a glossary, this definitive dramatic collection features all seven of the plays written by Christopher Marlowe--including Dido, Queen of Carthage, The Jew of Malta, Doctor Faustus, and The Massacre at Paris. Reprint.

Product Description: This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe's work. It includes thorough investigations of his major plays, Tamburlaine, Edward II, The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus as well as a full discussion of The Massacre at Paris, Dido Queen of Carthage and all his extant poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Authoritative version of this much loved play. Back in print after a dozen years with corrections and amendations. Part of MUP's strategy to have the complete works of Marlowe in print by the year 2000. Very popular edition by one of the most respected dramatic scholars. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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.

Product Description: This collection of essays looks at Marlowe in the context of the cultural history of the period. It discusses Marlowe's childhood and youth, looks at the incidence of atheism, magic and homosexuality in his plays and poetry, and traces his engagement with other lands and cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study of Marlowe's appropriations of tragic narrative shows how his moral ambiguity is a rhetorical effect produced by his favored use of dilation or amplification. Through close readings of Marlowe's seven works, Grande outlines a typology of Marlovian dilation on various levels...read more

Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this collection of essays is that Marlowe shares the post-modern preoccupation with the language of power - and the power of language itself. As Richard Wilson shows in his introduction, it is no accident that the founding essays of New Historicism were on Marlowe; nor that current Queer Theorists focus so much on his images of gender and homosexuality. Marlowe staged both the birth of the modern author and the origin of modern sexual desire, and it is this unique conjunction that makes his drama a key to contemporary debates about the state and the self: from pornography to gays in the military.Gay Studies, Cultural Materialism, New Historicism and Reader Response Criticism are all represented in this selection, which the introduction places in the light not only of theorists like Althusser, Bataille and Bakhtin, but also of artists and writers such as Jean Genet and Robert Mapplethorpe. Many of the essays take off from Marlowe's extreme dramatisations of arson, cruelty and aggression, suggesting why it is that the thinker who has been most convincingly applied to his theatre is the philosopher of punishment and pain, Michel Foucault. Others explore the exclusiveness of this all-male universe, and reveal why it remains so offensive and impenetrable to feminism. For what they all make disturbingly clear is Marlowe's violent, untamed difference from the clichés and correctness of normative society. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Playing with Desire takes a new approach to Christopher Marlowe's body of writing, replacing the view of Marlovian desire as heroic aspiration with a far less uplifting model. Fred B. Tromly shows that in Marlowe's writing desire is a response to calculated, teasing enticement, ultimately a sign not of power but of impotence...read more

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Product Description: The year 1993 marked the 400th anniversary of Marlowe's death by stabbing in a tavern brawl. It also served as a rallying point for novels, plays, a film and many scholarly events. Marlowe's life and writings, his commitments and ambivalences, his politically correct and violently anti-establishment posturings make him a man for the 1990s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study enlists both postmodern theory and early modern history in a cultural reading of the construction of sex, gender, and sexuality in Dido, Queene of Carthage, Tamburlaine I and II, Edward II, and Doctor Faustus. Some of the aspects of the plays explored in this study include the symmetry or assymetry of gender; the representation of gender as natural and universal or discursively constructed; the reinforcement or subversion of traditional gender traits, gender principles, and gender structures; and the relationship of sex, gender, and sexuality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession presents the first comprehensive reading of the Marlowe canon in over a generation. The occasion for Patrick Cheney's rereading is a primary discovery: Marlowe organized his canon around an "Ovidian" career model, or cursus, which turns from amatory poetry to tragedy to epic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This study establishes the critical need for stage action in order to understand fully the theme of Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus". Marlowe's primary intent is to invert the morality play, illustrating the distortions and ambiguities of a systematized religion and seeking to establish the human dilemma when man is faced with moral choices, using emblematic action for an effect opposite to that of the traditional moralities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Critics have complained that Christopher Marlowe's plays lack «wholeness» or «completeness». This book presents a fresh alternative to familiar textual explanations, or to psychological explanations that focus primarily on Marlowe's homosexuality...read more

Product Description: This work focuses on Marlowe's works as an index of the major transformation of Elizabethan theatrical practices. In the opening chapter, Cole reviews the unusually intriguing historical record of Marlowe's life outside the theatre...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An investigation into the death of Christopher Marlowe, the sixteenth-century author tragically stabbed to death in a lodging house, reveals the secrets behind the enigmatic literary legend

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Product Description: Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" survives in two considerably different versions: the A-text (1604) and the B-text (1616). For generations of editors, the existence of these two versions has posed one of the most complex textual problems in English literature...read more

Product Description: Rarely has so much new thinking on the Elizabethan theatrical period been presented in one volume. With inspired insight and penetrating logic based on wide-ranging and meticulous reasearch, A.D. Wraight presents the thought-provoking conclusions of thirty years of study...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)