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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777021703321

Autore

Hopkins Lisa <1962->

Titolo

Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance dramatist [[electronic resource] /] / Lisa Hopkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-35757-X

9786611357573

0-7486-3058-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Renaissance dramatists

Disciplina

822/.3

Soggetti

English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-175) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chronology; 1. Marlowe's Life and Death; 2. The Marlowe Canon; 3. Marlowe on Stage, 1587-2007: Theatrical Contexts and Dramaturgical Practice; 4. Marlowe as Scholar: Old and New Knowledges in the Plays; 5. Marlowe the Horizon-Stretcher: Daring God out of Heaven and Conquering New Worlds; 6. Critical Issues; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe is a playwright whose work taps into the central concerns of his age, many of which are still important to us - religious uncertainty, the clash between Islam and Christianity, the discovery of America, ideas of sexuality and gender identity, and the rò‚le of the marginalised inidividual in society. The book contains six chapters, each on a specific aspect of Marlowe's work and its cultural contexts: Marlowe's life and death; the Marlowe canon; the theatrical contexts and stage histo