Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy

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By Douglas Cole

ISBN: 0-313-27516-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27516-6

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200 pages, photographs

Greenwood Press

Publication: 11/30/1995

List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Paperback

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Literature » Drama
Literature » English Literature

Series Title: Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies

Series Number: 63

Reviews:

Marlowe scholars will welcome this lucidly written book. In addition to chapter-by-chapter examinations of each of Marlowe's plays, Cole provides a brief biographical sketch of Marlowe and a description of the theater world in Queen Elizabeth's time...The infinite riches in this little book are not to be missed by any serious Marlovian scholar. Upper-division undergraduate upward.
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Choice
...Marlowe's reputation as an author and an innovative dramatist is assured, and Douglas Cole's book is an excellent assessment of it.
—Ricardian Register

Description: This work focuses on Marlowe's works as an index of the major transformation of Elizabethan theatrical practices. In the opening chapter, Cole reviews the unusually intriguing historical record of Marlowe's life outside the theatre. The body of the book addresses Marlowe's individual plays as experiments in extending and redefining the traditional concepts and techniques of tragic drama, and suggests how his contemporaries and followers made use of his innovations. Intended as an introduction to the subject, this book provides an insightful approach to Marlowe's work and the study of Elizabethan thought and theatre.

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword by Josh Beer, Christopher Innes, and Simon Williams
Prologue
Chronology
Matters of Life and Death
The World of the Theatre in the Reign of Elizabeth
Dido, Queen of Carthage: Tragedy in the Classical Tradition
Tamburlaine the Great: Tragical Discourse and Spectacle
Machiavellian Tragedy: The Massacre at Paris and The Jew of Malta
Edward II: Tragedy in the De Casibus Tradition
Doctor Faustus: Tragedy in the Allegorical Tradition
Marlowe's Legacy to Tragedy
Appendix A: Thomas Kyd's Accusations of Marlowe
Appendix B: Richard Baines' Note
Works Cited
Index

LC Card Number: 95-23019

LCC Class: PR2674

Dewey Class: 822


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