Christopher Marlowe at 450 / edited by Sara Munson Deats, Robert A. Logan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deats, Sara Munson, editor.

Logan, Robert A., 1935- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593--Criticism and interpretation.

Marlowe, Christopher.

Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593--Stage history.

Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 369 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015]

Summary:

"Commemorating the 450th birthday of a major, powerfully influential English poet and dramatist, Christopher Marlowe at 450 presents a comprehensive, up-to-date appraisal of the Marlovian scholarly landscape. An international group of acknowledged Marlowe experts evaluates the scholarship and criticism of all the individual works, various critical approaches, performances, theatre history, electronic resources, and biographies to reveal where we have arrived after 450 years and where scholarship might go next" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Dido, Queen of Carthage / Ruth Lunney

Tamburlaine: parts 1 and 2 / Tom Rutter

Doctor Faustus / Sara Munson Deats

The Jew of Malta / Stephen J. Lynch

Edward II / Robert A. Logan

The massacre at Paris / Leah S. Marcus

"The passionate shepherd to his love" and Hero and Leander / Patrick Cheney

Translations of Ovid and Lucan / M. L. Stapleton

Specters of Marlowe: the state of the debt and the work of mourning / Richard Wilson

Marlowe's plays in performance; a brief history / David Bevington

Marlowe and theatre history: / Christopher Matusiak

Marlowe and electronic resources / David McInnis

Marlowe biography: fact, inference, conjecture, and speculation / Constance Brown Kuriyama.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472409430

1472409434

OCLC:

891427476