Christopher Marlowe (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Part I Biography of Marlowe: Marlowe's Life and Career: Chronology and Introduction, Constance B. Kuriyama; Christopher Marlowe, Matthew N. Proser. Part II Initiating Controversy: Challenges to Familiar Assumptions about Marlowe: Christopher Marlowe, T.S. Eliot; Biography, mythography, and criticism: the life and works of Christopher Marlowe, Lukas Erne; 'Writ in blood': Marlowe and the new historicists, Richard Wilson. Part III Essays on More Than a Single Work: Marlowe and the 'comic distance', J.R. Mulryne and S. Fender; Marlowe and the will to absolute play, Stephen Greenblatt. Part IV Essays on Individual Works: Dido, Queen of Carthage: Errant Eros: transgressions of sex, gender, and desire in 'Dido, Queene of Carthage', Sarah Munson Deats; Tamburlaine, 1 & 2: The structure of 'Tamburlaine', Clifford Leech; The contemporary perception of Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Richard Levin; Dr Faustus: 'The forme of Faustus fortunes good or bad', C.L. Barber; Marlowe and God, David Bevington; The Jew of Malta: Innocent Barabas, Alfred Harbage; Marlowe as experimental dramatist: the role of the audience in 'The Jew of Malta', Edward L. Rocklin; The Massacre at Paris: Mirrors for foolish princes, Judith Weil; 'The Massacre at Paris': Marlowe's messy consensus narrative, Rick Bowers; Edward II: History without morality: Edward II, Wilbur Sanders; The eye of the beholder, Stephen Orgel; Hero and Leander: Marlowe, 'Hero and Lander', and the art of leaping in poetry, Jane Adamson; Marlowe's Other Poetry: 'On the Death of Sir Roger Manwood', Ovid's Elegies 'The Passionate Shepherd', Hero and Leander, and Lucan's First Book: Marlowe's poems and classicism, Georgia E. Brown. Part V Essays on Particularized Interests: Marlowe's boy actors, Evelyn Tribble; Marlowe reruns: repertorial commerce and Marlowe's plays in revival, Roslyn L. Knutson; Name Index.