Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

ISBN-13: 9780367880255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 172 str.

Andrew Duxfield

Opis

In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. Duxfield’s focus on unity as a theme throughout the plays provides a new l

Spis treści

Introduction

1 Building a Statelier Troy: Dido, Queen of Carthage

2 Reduced to a Map: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two

3 "Resolve me of all ambiguities": Doctor Faustus

4 Individual and Multitude: The Jew of Malta and The Massacre at Paris

5 True Contraties: Edward II

Afterword

O autorze

Andrew Duxfield is Lecturer in English Literature at Coventry University, UK.