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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819235303321

Autore

Cheney P (Patrick)

Titolo

Marlowe's Counterfeit profession : Ovid, Spenser, counter-nationhood / / Patrick Cheney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-282-00945-1

9786612009457

1-4426-7706-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

822.3

Soggetti

Authorship - History - 16th century

English literature - Roman influences

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism - Theory, etc

National characteristics, British, in literature

LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama

Livres numeriques.

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS""; ""Introduction: Marlowe's Ovidian Career, Spenser, and the Writing of Counter-Nationhood""; ""Part I: Sea-Bank Myrtle Sprays: Amatory Poetry""; ""1 Ovid's Counter-Virgilian Cursus in the Amores""; ""2 Marlowe's New Renaissance Ovid: 'Area maior' in Ovid's Elegies""; ""3 Career Rivalry, Counter-Nationhood, and Philomela in 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'""; ""Part II: Sceptres and High Buskins: Tragedy""; ""4 Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Coining of '""Eliza""'""



""5 'Thondring words of threate': Spenser in Tamburlaine, Parts 1and 2""""6 Machiavelli and the Play of Policy in The Jew of Malta""; ""7 'Italian masques by night': Machiavellian Policy and Ovidian Play in Edward II""; ""8 'Actors in this massacre': The Massacre at Paris and the Orphic Guise of Metatheatre""; ""9 Un-script(ur)ing Christian Tragedy: Ovidian Love, Magic, and Glory in Doctor Faustus""; ""Part III: Trumpets and Drums: Epic""; ""10 Counter-Epic of Empire: Lucan's First Book""; ""11 Marlowe, Chapman, and the Rewriting of Spenser's England in Hero and Leander""

""Afterword: Counterfeiting the Profession""""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

Cheney argues that Marlowe organizes his canon around an ""Ovidian"" career model, or cursus, which turns from amatory poetry to tragedy to epic. The first comprehensive reading of the Marlowe canon in over a generation.