The Cambridge companion to Christopher Marlowe
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780521527347 |
| Open Library | OL18252049W |
| Total publications | 5 |
| Coverage period | 2004 - 2004 |
| Language | EN |
Christopher Marlowe was one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. This book considers topics such as his life, texts, style, politics, religion and classicism, as well as his representations of sexuality and gender, geography and identity.
Dido, Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris
On first consideration, Dido, Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris may seem an odd couple to discuss in tandem. In many ways the plays represent polarities within the Marlowe canon. Despite the many questions surrounding the dating of Dido, Queen of Carthage , most scholars agree that it is Marlowe's first dramatic effort, perhaps scripted while he was still a student at Cambridge, and The Massacre at Paris one of his last, probably writte…
Geography and identity in Marlowe
Foreign settings in early modern English drama are often assumed to be as vague and imprecise as Shakespeare's famously non-existent Bohemian shore in The Winter's Tale . Designed to generate a nebulous sense of Otherness, foreign landscapes are sometimes little more than evocatively alien. Standing as an obvious exception to this view are the plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which dramatic location is carefully chosen: Tamburlaine's imperial con…
Marlowe’s men and women
The society in which Marlowe lived and wrote, and the fictional worlds he created in his writings, were highly gender-segregated. Different physical, emotional, and intellectual qualities were ascribed to men and women, and to a significant extent they inhabited distinct social spaces. These gender divisions shaped the ways in which men and women came to know themselves as such, profoundly affecting the possibilities for sexual desire and express…
The Cambridge companion to Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe was one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. This book considers topics such as his life, texts, style, politics, religion and classicism, as well as his representations of sexuality and gender, geography and identity.
Marlowe and the politics of religion
It is a critical commonplace that religion and politics were inseparably entwined in Marlowe's England. Queen Elizabeth was 'Supreme Governess' of the Church of England, and the Church of England's leading primate, Archbishop John Whitgift, wielded considerable authority as a member of her Privy Council. Since monarchical rule was divinely sanctioned with the queen herself as God's vice-regent, disobedience to her laws was not just a crime, but a…
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Dido, Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris
On first consideration, Dido, Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris may seem an odd couple to discuss in tandem. In many ways the plays represent polarities within the Marlowe canon. Despite the many questions surrounding the dating of Dido, Queen of Carthage , most scholars agree that it is Marlowe's first dramatic effort, perhaps scripted while he was still a student at Cambridge, and The Massacre at Paris one of his last, probably writte…
Geography and identity in Marlowe
Foreign settings in early modern English drama are often assumed to be as vague and imprecise as Shakespeare's famously non-existent Bohemian shore in The Winter's Tale . Designed to generate a nebulous sense of Otherness, foreign landscapes are sometimes little more than evocatively alien. Standing as an obvious exception to this view are the plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which dramatic location is carefully chosen: Tamburlaine's imperial con…
Marlowe’s men and women
The society in which Marlowe lived and wrote, and the fictional worlds he created in his writings, were highly gender-segregated. Different physical, emotional, and intellectual qualities were ascribed to men and women, and to a significant extent they inhabited distinct social spaces. These gender divisions shaped the ways in which men and women came to know themselves as such, profoundly affecting the possibilities for sexual desire and express…
The Cambridge companion to Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe was one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. This book considers topics such as his life, texts, style, politics, religion and classicism, as well as his representations of sexuality and gender, geography and identity.
Marlowe and the politics of religion
It is a critical commonplace that religion and politics were inseparably entwined in Marlowe's England. Queen Elizabeth was 'Supreme Governess' of the Church of England, and the Church of England's leading primate, Archbishop John Whitgift, wielded considerable authority as a member of her Privy Council. Since monarchical rule was divinely sanctioned with the queen herself as God's vice-regent, disobedience to her laws was not just a crime, but a…