Overview

Christopher Marlowe is known not only as Shakespeare's most notable contemporary playwright, but also as one of the most intriguing figures of the English Renaissance. The mystery of his death in a fray at the age of 29 has inspired writers around the world, and his fiery career is no less intriguing. This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of essays on Marlowe's major plays. Articles from the last two decades by leading critics of English early modern drama provide a variety of fresh, controversial and enlightening critical perspectives on five of Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine the Great Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II.

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Author:   Avraham Oz
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.541kg
ISBN:  

9780333624982

ISBN 10:   033362498
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   21 October 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Introduction; A.Oz Strange and Estranging Spectacles: Strategies of State and Stage; E.C.Bartels Christopher Marlowe: Ideology and Subversion; M.Hattaway Faces of Nation and Barbarism: Prophetic Mimicry and the Politics of Tamburlaine the Great; A.Oz Marlowe, Marx and Anti-Semitism; S.Greenblatt 'So Neatly Plotted, and So Well Perform'd': Villain and Playwright in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; S.M.Deats & L.S.Starks Economic and Ideological Exchange in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; D.Thurn Doctor Faustus: Subversion Through Transgression; J.Dollimore Doctor Faustus and Knowledge in Conflict; C.Belsey Reading Faustus's God; A.Sinfield The Terms of Gender: 'Gay' and 'Feminist' Edward II; D.Callaghan Queer Edward II: Postmodern Sexualities and the Early Modern Subject; T.Cartelli Further Reading A Marlowe Chronology Notes on Contributors Index.

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AVRAHAM OZ is Professor of Drama at the University of Haifa and Visiting Professor of Drama at Tel Aviv University.

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