286 Pages
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Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. INTRODUCTION. The Ruffian on the Stair. The Burning Library. Confessions of a Mask. The Bonfire of Vanities. Saint Marlowe. 2. MARJORIE GARBER, `Here's Nothing Writ': Scribe, Script and Circumscription in Marlowe's Plays 3. JONATHAN GOLDBERG, Sodomy and Society: The Case of Christopher Marlowe 4. SIMON SHEPHERD, Representing `Women' and Males: Gender Relations in Marlowe 5. JONATHAN GOLDBERG, `Play the Sodomites, or Worse': `Dido Queen of Carthage' 6. JONATHAN CREWE, The Theatre of the Idols: Marlowe, Rankins, and Theatrical Images 7. ALAN SINFIELD, Legitimating Tamburlaine 8. RICHARD WILSON, Visible Bullets: `Tamburlaine the Great' and Ivan the Terrible 9. STEPHEN GREENBLATT, Marlowe, Marx, and Anti-Semitism 10. EMILY BARTELS, Malta: `The Jew of Malta', and the Fictions of Difference
11. THOMAS CARTELLI, King Edward's Body 12. JOHN ARCHER, Marlowe and the Observation of Men
13. JULIA BRIGGS, The Rites of Violence: Marlowe's `Massacre at Paris' 14. JONATHAN DOLLIMORE, `Doctor Faustus': Subversion through Transgression 15. HILARY GATTI, Bruno and Marlowe: `Doctor Faustus'
11. THOMAS CARTELLI, King Edward's Body 12. JOHN ARCHER, Marlowe and the Observation of Men
13. JULIA BRIGGS, The Rites of Violence: Marlowe's `Massacre at Paris' 14. JONATHAN DOLLIMORE, `Doctor Faustus': Subversion through Transgression 15. HILARY GATTI, Bruno and Marlowe: `Doctor Faustus'
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Richard Wilson
