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...

Political Performances: Theory and Practice emerges from the work of the Political Performances Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research/Federation Internationale pour la Recherche de Theatrale. The collection of essays strives to interrogate definitions and expand boundaries of political performance. Members of Political Performances are from around the world and so approach the intersection of politics and performance from very different perspectives. Some focus on socio-political context, others on dramatic content, others on political issues and activism, and...