Andrew Duxfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 5137279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Duxfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Duxfield |
| SIGNATURE | DUXFIELD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify
In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the ambiguity of the plays, he suggests, this focus produces a tension that both heightens dramatic effect and facilitates a cynical response to contempor…
Where am I Now?’
This article considers the instability of the bare Elizabethan stage in relation to two significant early modern plays. Considering first King Lear as an example of the mimetic flexibility of the bare stage space, the article goes on to demonstrate that in the staging of Dido, Queen of Carthage Troy becomes a malleable, mobile entity, much as it did in historico-political discourses which appropriated it as a legitimising ancestor for aspirant co…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction Most people familiar with Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus will have experienced it as a unified entity neatly presented in a twentieth‐century edition. What is fairly well known, but not always taken into serious consideration by scholars, however, is that Doctor Faustus is a play that exists in two widely differing forms, and that in making modern editions, editors often produce something that is in turn similar to nei…
Modern Problems of Editing
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , as well as being one of the most popular and enduring dramatic works of the English Renaissance, is also among its most textually problematic. The fact of the play's existence in two greatly differing and notoriously unreliable texts has long been a challenge for editors, and one that has traditionally been overcome by the production of amalgamated editions that seamlessly blend the ‘best’ elements of both t…
Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify
In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the ambiguity of the plays, he suggests, this focus produces a tension that both heightens dramatic effect and facilitates a cynical response to contempor…
Where am I Now?’
This article considers the instability of the bare Elizabethan stage in relation to two significant early modern plays. Considering first King Lear as an example of the mimetic flexibility of the bare stage space, the article goes on to demonstrate that in the staging of Dido, Queen of Carthage Troy becomes a malleable, mobile entity, much as it did in historico-political discourses which appropriated it as a legitimising ancestor for aspirant co…
Modern Problems of Editing
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , as well as being one of the most popular and enduring dramatic works of the English Renaissance, is also among its most textually problematic. The fact of the play's existence in two greatly differing and notoriously unreliable texts has long been a challenge for editors, and one that has traditionally been overcome by the production of amalgamated editions that seamlessly blend the ‘best’ elements of both t…
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction Most people familiar with Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus will have experienced it as a unified entity neatly presented in a twentieth‐century edition. What is fairly well known, but not always taken into serious consideration by scholars, however, is that Doctor Faustus is a play that exists in two widely differing forms, and that in making modern editions, editors often produce something that is in turn similar to nei…
Where am I Now?’
This article considers the instability of the bare Elizabethan stage in relation to two significant early modern plays. Considering first King Lear as an example of the mimetic flexibility of the bare stage space, the article goes on to demonstrate that in the staging of Dido, Queen of Carthage Troy becomes a malleable, mobile entity, much as it did in historico-political discourses which appropriated it as a legitimising ancestor for aspirant co…
Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify
In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the ambiguity of the plays, he suggests, this focus produces a tension that both heightens dramatic effect and facilitates a cynical response to contempor…
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