Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman Scott, Sarah K, Dr; Stapleton, M L, Professor
2010, 20160523, 2010-07-01, 2016-05-23, 2016-05-31
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Contributions to this volume explore the idea of Marlowe as a working artist, in keeping with John Addington Symonds' characterization of him as a "sculptor-poet." Throughout the body of his ...work-including not only the poems and plays, but also his forays into translation and imitation-a distinguished company of established and emerging literary scholars traces how Marlowe conceives an idea, shapes and refines it, then remakes and remodels it, only to refashion it further in his writing process. These essays necessarily overlap with one another in the categories of lives, stage, and page, which signals their interdependent nature regarding questions of authorship, theater and performance history, as well as interpretive issues within the works themselves. The contributors interpret and analyze the disputed facts of Marlowe's life, the textual difficulties that emerge from the staging of his plays, the critical investigations arising from analyses of individual works, and their relationship to those of his contemporaries. The collection engages in new ways the controversies and complexities of its subject's life and art. It reflects the flourishing state of Marlowe studies as it shapes the twenty-first century conception of the poet and playwright as master craftsman.
Presenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe's complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe's work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and ...reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful chapters consider Marlowe's deliberate engagements with the stage and print culture, the agents and methods involved in the transmission of his work, and his cultural reception in the light of repertory and print evidence. With contributions from major international scholars, the volume considers all of Marlowe's oeuvre, offering illuminating approaches to his extended animation in theatre and print, from the putative theatrical debut of Tamburlaine in 1587 to the most current editions of his work.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race. El objetivo es ambicioso, pues este es el tercer volumen sobre el tema que coordina Thompson, quien ya había editado, en las décadas anteriores, ...Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (Routledge, 2006) y, junto a Scott L. Newstok, Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Palgrave, 2010). Siguiendo el trabajo seminal de Barbara J. Fields y Karen E. Fields (Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. El ya citado capítulo de Britton y el de Virginia Mason Vaughan y Alden T. Vaughan también son buenos ejemplos de la utilidad crítica del enfoque interseccional.
Providing a comprehensive survey of Christopher Marlowe's literary career, this Introduction presents an approachable account of the life, works and influence of the groundbreaking Elizabethan ...dramatist and poet. It includes in-depth discussions of all of Marlowe's plays, stressing what was new and revolutionary about them as well as how they made use of existing dramatic models. Marlowe's poems and translations, sometimes marginalised in discussions of his work, are analysed to emphasise their literary importance and political resonances. The book presents a balanced discussion of Marlowe's turbulent life and considers his afterlives: the influence of his work on other writers and examples of how his plays have been performed. In addition to introducing the reader to the historical and religious contexts within which Marlowe wrote, the Introduction stresses the qualities that continue to make his work fascinating: intellectual range, radical irony and an awareness of the dangerously compelling power of theatre.
A contemporary of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe was one of the most influential early modern dramatists, whose life and mysterious death have long been the subject of ...critical and popular speculation. This collection sets Marlowe's plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural influence. Chapters by leading international scholars discuss both his major and lesser-known works. Divided into three sections, 'Marlowe's works', 'Marlowe's world', and 'Marlowe's reception', the book ranges from Marlowe's relationship with his own audience through to adaptations of his plays for modern cinema. Other contexts for Marlowe include history and politics, religion and science. Discussions of Marlowe's critics and Marlowe's appeal today, in performance, literature and biography, show how and why his works continue to resonate; and a comprehensive further reading list provides helpful suggestions for those who want to find out more.
Devil in the details Boyce, Niall
The Lancet (British edition),
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Recenzirano
It's appropriate that the Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus initially shared the Swan Theatre--and most of its cast--with its production of Don Quixote. Both ...Marlowe's play and Miguel de Cervantes's novel are, in their way, tales of obsession; and in both cases, the protagonists are led along the road to ruin by that most addictive of drugs, the written word. It is a strange paradox that two such influential texts should have, at their core, a strong strain of bibliophobia.
Doctor Faustus Deats, Sara Munson
2015, 2010, 2015-04-10, 2015-04-06
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Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe's most popular play andis often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often ...arousing violent critical controversy. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, surveying notable stage productions from its initial performance in 1594 to the present andincluding TV, audioand cinematic versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated biography provide a basis for further individual research.
InDr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote a profoundly religious drama despite the theater's newfound secularism and his own reputation for anti-Christian irreverence.The Aesthetics of ...Antichristexplores this apparent paradox by suggesting that, long before Marlowe, Christian drama and ritual performance had reveled in staging the collapse of Christianity into its historical opponents-paganism, Judaism, worldliness, heresy. By embracing this tradition, Marlowe's work would at once demonstrate the theatricality inhering in Christian worship and, unexpectedly, resacralize the commercial theater.
The Antichrist myth in particular tells of an impostor turned prophet: performing Christ's life, he reduces the godhead to a special effect yet in so doing foretells the real second coming. Medieval audiences, as well as Marlowe's, could evidently enjoy the constant confusion between true Christianity and its empty look-alikes for that very reason: mimetic degradation anticipated some final, as yet deferred revelation. Mere theater was a necessary prelude to redemption. The versions of the myth we find in Marlowe and earlier drama actually approximate, John Parker argues, a premodern theory of the redemptive effect of dramatic representation itself. Crossing the divide between medieval and Renaissance theater while drawing heavily on New Testament scholarship, Patristics, and research into the apocrypha,The Aesthetics of Antichristproposes a wholesale rereading of pre-Shakespearean drama.
J.C. Maxwell's essay on 'The Plays of Christopher Marlowe' discusses Marlowe's status as a pioneer among Elizabethan dramatists, alongside other minor and bad playwrights. Marlowe's plays, ...particularly Doctor Faustus, are highly valued and frequently performed. On the other hand, Greene, once considered bad, is now given a more generous assessment by Darren Freebury-Jones. Freebury-Jones examines Greene's plays and concludes that Locrine and Selimus should be added to his canon, while rejecting attribution of the other two marginal plays. Freebury-Jones also explores Greene's influence on other writers, including Shakespeare, and analyzes his characteristics as a playwright. The evidence used in Freebury-Jones's analysis comes from Pervez Rizvi's site, 'Collocations and N-grams', which records shared word sequences in early modern plays. Rizvi distinguishes between maximal and formal matches, and provides raw and weighted figures. In a previous study, it was shown that weighted unique formal trigram matches can indicate authorship. However, Freebury-Jones's modifications to the procedure have produced different results.
Walls examines English playwright Christopher Marlowe's recollection of a Corpus Christi doomsday pageant. In his agonized final hour Marlowe's Faustus, anticipating eternal punishment contemplates ...throwing himself upon God's mercy-only to relinquish hope-in the conviction that God's disposition towards him is wrathful. Indeed, his conviction seems plausible, given that a demon tears at his flesh as he spoke. It is the magnificent vision of Christ's blood literally "streaming in the firmament' that prompts (or projects) Faustus's momentary indecision and lends so much tension to his compelling final speech. He suggests that this vision was recalled from the concluding pageant in the Chester Corpus Christi Play, "The Last Judgement." It is possible that Marlowe saw this play--or one quite like it--performed when he was a school-boy.
