1st Edition

Re-citing Marlowe Approaches to the Drama

By Clare Harraway Copyright 2000
    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    This title was first published in 2000:  Re-citing the available information on Christopher Marlowe, this study seeks to illuminate the preoccupations and pitfalls of previous accounts of the dramatist's canon in an effort to discover, or to elaborate, new areas of investigation. Each chapter considers one of Marlowe's dramatic works in relation to a different critical approach or isue suggested by scholarship's prior treatment of the play. The book consequently operates on two levels: it is a review of a canon which has suffered theoretical neglect; and a blueprint for a more critically sophisticated approach to English literature.

    Introduction: Words Are What Remain, Reading and Writing, 1. Rewriting Doctor Faustus, 2. Edward II: Underwriting History Repetition, 3. Tamburlaine: A Timely Sequel, 4. Fathering Virgil: Dido, Queene of Carthage and Originality Re-formation, 5. Forever Babel: The Canon, Translation and The Massacre at Paris, 6. A Production of Kinds: Genre, The Jew of Malta and the Promise of Repetition, Conclusion: Words Yet Remaining, Bibliography, Index

    Biography

    Harraway, Clare