Description
Product ID: | 9780754662044 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe |
Subtitle: | Fresh Cultural Contexts |
Authors: | Author: Sara Munson Deats, Robert A. Logan |
Page Count: | 264 |
Subjects: | Theatre studies, Theatre studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Focusing upon Marlowe the playwright as opposed to Marlowe the man, this work features essays that position the dramatist's plays within the dramaturgical, ethical, and sociopolitical matrices of his own era. It also examines the controversies of the early modern period 'such as the anti-theatrical debate, and the discourse of addiction. Focusing upon Marlowe the playwright as opposed to Marlowe the man, the essays in this collection position the dramatist''s plays within the dramaturgical, ethical, and sociopolitical matrices of his own era. The volume also examines some of the most heated controversies of the early modern period, such as the anti-theatrical debate, the relations between parents and children, Machiavaelli¹s ideology, the legitimacy of sectarian violence, and the discourse of addiction. Some of the chapters also explore Marlowe''s polysemous influence on the theater of his time and of later periods, but, most centrally, upon his more famous contemporary poet/playwright, William Shakespeare. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-02-28 |