Marlowe

ISBN-13: 9780333624982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 232 str.

Avraham Oz

Opis

This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of essays on the major plays of Shakespeare's most notable contemporary playwright, Christopher Marlowe. Articles from the last two decades by major critics of English early modern drama, among them Stephen Greenblatt, Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield, Michael Hattaway, Dympna Callagham, Emily Bartels and others, provide a variety of fresh, controversial and enlightening critical perspectives on five of Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine the Great Parts I and II, The Jew of Malta, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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

Blurb

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.