Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture

Darryll Grantley, Peter Roberts

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780429866784
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

First published in 1996, this volume asked the question: who – and what – was Christopher Marlowe? Dramatist, poet, atheist and possible spy, he was a man in contrast with his time. The authors here gather to explore Marlowe on the four hundredth anniversary of his death. They include significant interdisciplinary elements and focus on dramaturgy, textual criticism and biography. It is hoped that the diversity of approaches can further debates on both Marlowe and Renaissance culture.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Notes on contributors
• 1. ‘onelye a boye called Christopher Mowle’
• 2. ‘The Studious Artizan’: Christopher Marlowe, Canterbury and Cambridge
• 3. ‘At Middleborough’: Some Reflections on Marlowe’s Visit to the Low Countries in 1592
• 4. Visible Bullets: Tamburlaine the Great and Ivan the Terrible
• 5. Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris and the Reputation of Henri III of France
• 6. Marlowe’s Maps of War
• 7. Marlowe and the New World
• 8. The Stage, the Scaffold and the Spectators: the Struggle for Power in Marlowe’s Jew of Malta
• 9. Christopher Marlowe and Atheism
• 10. Necromantic Books: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Agrippa of Nettesheim
• 11. ‘What passions call you these?’: Edward II and James VI
• 12. Christopher Marlowe: Ideology and Subversion
• 13. ‘What meanes this shew?’: Theatricalism, Camp and Subversion in Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta
• 14. Marlowe and the Internalization of Irony
• Bibliography
• Editions of Marlowe’s Works
• Index