Christopher Marlowe is known not only as Shakespeare's most notable contemporary playwright, but also as one of the most intriguing figures of the English Renaissance. The mystery of his death in a fray at the age of 29 has inspired writers around the world, and his fiery career is no less intriguing. This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of essays on Marlowe's major plays. Articles from the last two decades by leading critics of English early modern drama provide a variety of fresh, controversial and enlightening critical perspectives on five of Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine the Great Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Doctor Faustus, and Edward II.
Autorentext
AVRAHAM OZ is Professor of Drama at the University of Haifa, Israel, and Visiting Professor of Drama at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Inhalt
Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; A.Oz
Strange and Estranging Spectacles: Strategies of State and Stage; E.C.Bartels
Christopher Marlowe: Ideology and Subversion; M.Hattaway
Faces of Nation and Barbarism: Prophetic Mimicry and the Politics of Tamburlaine the Great; A.Oz
Marlowe, Marx and Anti-Semitism; S.Greenblatt
'So Neatly Plotted, and So Well Perform'd': Villain and Playwright in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; S.M.Deats & L.S.Starks
Economic and Ideological Exchange in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; D.Thurn
Doctor Faustus: Subversion Through Transgression; J.Dollimore
Doctor Faustus and Knowledge in Conflict; C.Belsey
Reading Faustus's God; A.Sinfield
The Terms of Gender: 'Gay' and 'Feminist' Edward II; D.Callaghan
Queer Edward II: Postmodern Sexualities and the Early Modern Subject; T.Cartelli
Further Reading
A Marlowe Chronology
Notes on Contributors
Index.