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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      02 February 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139031158
      9780521196345
      9780521124300
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031158
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 166 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.27kg, 168 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British Theatre, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, British Theatre, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Book description

    Providing a comprehensive survey of Christopher Marlowe's literary career, this Introduction presents an approachable account of the life, works and influence of the groundbreaking Elizabethan dramatist and poet. It includes in-depth discussions of all of Marlowe's plays, stressing what was new and revolutionary about them as well as how they made use of existing dramatic models. Marlowe's poems and translations, sometimes marginalised in discussions of his work, are analysed to emphasise their literary importance and political resonances. The book presents a balanced discussion of Marlowe's turbulent life and considers his afterlives: the influence of his work on other writers and examples of how his plays have been performed. In addition to introducing the reader to the historical and religious contexts within which Marlowe wrote, the Introduction stresses the qualities that continue to make his work fascinating: intellectual range, radical irony and an awareness of the dangerously compelling power of theatre.

    Reviews

    'On the whole, I have found this book a model of excellence in its scholarship, intelligence, and suggestiveness. It is remarkably fresh in the focus of each chapter, wide-ranging in scope, flexible and detailed in supplying illuminating contexts, and thoroughly engaging in the persuasive candor of its well-supported observations. I recommend it without reservation.'

    Robert A. Logan - University of Hartford

    'This is the book you want for your students: it is readable, sensible, fact-filled, fancy-careful, comprehensive for its publishing category, and affordable.'

    Roslyn Knutson - Professor Emerita, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

    'On the whole, I have found this book a model of excellence in its scholarship, intelligence, and suggestiveness. It is remarkably fresh in the focus of each chapter, wide-ranging in scope, flexible and detailed in supplying illuminating contexts, and thoroughly engaging in the persuasive candor of its well-supported observations. I recommend it without reservation.'

    Source: The Marlowe Society of America

    '… a short, engaging book targeted at students, teachers and lecturers. It covers familiar territory (the life and works of Marlowe) in an original way by combining a historical approach, an interest in performance and reader-response, and illuminating close readings of some passages of the plays and poems. Rutter’s information is always precise and every statement is traced back to a primary source (letters, Privy Council reports, the Baines note, plays by other dramatists...) The book is also well documented: Rutter is aware of much of the recent criticism on Marlowe’s life and works and he is also well informed on the history of theatre companies and on studies on gender and sexuality in early modern England, but he quotes his sources only sparsely, saving his reader from an ostentatious display of knowledge not fitted to this kind of work. Another strength of this book is the clarity and elegance of the exposition.'

    Source: Cercles: Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Bibliography
    Criticism
    Alpers, Paul 1996 What is Pastoral?University of Chicago Press
    Bartels, Emily C. 1993 Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and MarlowePhiladelphiaUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
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    Bevington, David M. 1962 From ‘Mankind’ to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor EnglandCambridge, MAHarvard University Press
    Bevington, David M. 2010
    Bray, Alan 1982 Homosexuality in Renaissance EnglandLondonGay Mens Press
    Briggs, Julia 1983 The Rites of Violence: Marlowe’s ’Review of English Studies 34 25778
    Brooke, Tucker 1922 Marlowe’s Versification and Style’Studies in Philology 19 186205
    Brown, Georgia 2004 Marlowe’s Poems and Classicismin The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe
    Burnett, Mark Thornton 1987 Tamburlaine: An Elizabethan Vagabond’Studies in Philology 84 308
    Cheney, Patrick 1997 Marlowe’s Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-nationhoodUniversity of Toronto Press
    Cheney, Patrick 2004 The Cambridge Companion to Christopher MarloweCambridge University Press
    Cheney, Patrick 2009 Marlowe’s Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the SublimeBasingstokePalgrave Macmillan
    Deats, Sara Munson 1997 Sex, Gender and Desire in the Plays of Christopher MarloweNewark: University of Delaware Press; LondonAssociated University Presses
    Deats, Sara Munson 2002
    Deats, Sara Munson 2010 ‘Doctor Faustus’: A Critical GuideLondonContinuum
    Deats, Sara MunsonLogan, Robert A. 2002 Marlowe’s Empery: Expanding His Critical ContextsNewark: University of Delaware Press; LondonAssociated University Presses
    Deats, Sara Munson 2008 Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Fresh Cultural ContextsAldershotAshgate
    DiGangi, Mario 1997 The Homoerotics of Early Modern DramaCambridge University Press 1997
    Downie, J. A.Parnell, J. T. 2000 Constructing Christopher MarloweCambridge University Press
    Duxfield, Andrew 2009 review of , dir. by James Macdonald for the National TheatreShakespeare 5 323
    Eliot, T. S. 1920 The Sacred WoodLondonMethuen
    Empson, William 1987 Faustus and the CensorJones, John HenryOxfordBlackwell
    Erne, Lukas 2003 Shakespeare as Literary DramatistCambridge University Press
    Forker, Charles R. 1994 Edward the SecondMarlowe, ChristopherManchester University Press
    Geckle, George L. 1988 Text and Performance: ‘Tamburlaine’ and ‘Edward II’BasingstokeMacmillan
    Godwin, Laura Grace 2009 There is Nothin’ like a Dame”: Christopher Marlowe’s Helen of Troy at the Royal Shakespeare CompanyShakespeare Bulletin 27.1 69
    Greenblatt, Stephen J. 1978 Marlowe, Marx, and Anti-Semitism’Critical Inquiry 5 291307
    Greg, W. W. 1946 The Damnation of Faustus’Modern Language Review 41 97
    Gurr, Andrew 2009 Shakespeare’s Opposites: The Admiral’s Company 1594–1625Cambridge University Press
    Harraway, Clare 2000 Re-citing Marlowe: Approaches to the DramaAldershotAshgate
    Hartley, Andrew James 2010
    Hodgkins, Christopher 2002 Protestant Colonialism and Conscience in British LiteratureColumbiaUniversity of Missouri Press
    Hopkins, Lisa 2004
    Hopkins, Lisa 2008 Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance DramatistEdinburgh University Press
    Hunter, G. K. 1997 English Drama 1586–1642: The Age of ShakespeareOxfordClarendon Press
    Leech, Clifford 1986 Christopher Marlowe: Poet for the StageLancashire, AnneNew YorkAMS Press
    Levin, Harry 1961 Christopher Marlowe: The OverreacherLondonFaber and Faber
    Lunney, Ruth 2002 Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama before 1595Manchester University Press 2002
    MacLure, Millar 1979 Marlowe: The Critical Heritage 1588–1896LondonRoutledge and Kegan Paul
    McAdam, Ian 1999 The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher MarloweNewark: University of Delaware Press; LondonAssociated University Presses
    McMillin, ScottSally-Beth, MacLean 1998 The Queen’s Men and Their PlaysCambridge University Press
    Mebane, John S. 1989 Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and ShakespeareLincolnUniversity of Nebraska Press
    Morris, Brian 1968 Mermaid Critical Companions: Christopher MarloweLondonErnest Benn
    Moss, Stephanie 2008
    Perry, Curtis 2006 Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern EnglandCambridge University Press
    Potter, Lois 2000
    Potter, Lois 2004
    Scott, Sarah K.Stapleton, M. L. 2010 Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and PageAldershotAshgate
    Shapiro, James 1991 Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, ShakespeareNew YorkColumbia University Press
    Shapiro, James 1996 Shakespeare and the JewsNew YorkColumbia University Press
    Shepard, Alexandra 2003 Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern EnglandOxford University Press
    Shepherd, Simon 1986 Marlowe and the Politics of Elizabethan TheatreBrightonHarvester
    Simkin, Stevie 2000 A Preface to MarloweHarlowPearson
    Sinfield, Alan 1983 Literature in Protestant England 1560–1660LondonCroom Helm
    Smith, Bruce R. 1991 Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England: A Cultural PoeticsUniversity of Chicago P
    Smith, James L. 1968
    Spivack, Bernard 1958 Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil: The History of a Metaphor in Relation to His Major VillainsNew YorkColumbia University Press
    Stapleton, M. L. 2010
    Steane, J. B. 1964 Marlowe: A Critical StudyCambridge University Press
    Tromly, Fred B. 1998 Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of TantalizationUniversity of Toronto Press
    Tydeman, William 1984 Text and Performance: ‘Doctor FaustusBasingstokeMacmillan
    Virgil, (Publius Vergilius Maro) 1934 Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid, Minor Poems, rev. edn, 2 vols., trans. H. Rushton FaircloughCambridge, MAHarvard University Press
    Vitkus, Daniel 2003 Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570–1630New YorkPalgrave
    White, Paul Whitfield 1998 Marlowe, History, and Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher MarloweNew YorkAMS Press
    Martin, Wiggins 2008
    Yates, Frances A. 1964 Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic TraditionLondonRoutledge and Kegan Paul

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