Christopher Marlowe : the critical heritage / edited by Millar MacLure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593, author.

Contributor:

MacLure, Millar, 1917- editor.

Series:

Critical heritage series.

Critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.

Marlowe, Christopher.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

New Edition

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This major work brings together, for the first time in a single volume, all the recognized sources of Marlowe's dramatic work. Many of the forty-two texts presented here are of outstanding interest in their own right. Together they illuminate the cultural milieu which fostered Marlowe's talent, and deepen our appreciation of his dramatic methods. * Each of the texts is accessibly presented for the modern reader and is fully annotated. * Works in Latin or foreign vernaculars are translated, many for the first time, and modern spelling and punctuation are used throughout. * The sourc

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE; INTRODUCTION; NOTE ON THE TEXT; I (1588-1642); 1 ROBERT GREENE; (a) From 'Perimedes the Blacksmith', 1588; (b) From 'A Groatsworth of Wit', 1592; 2 HENRY CHETTLE, from 'Kind-Harts Dreame', 1592; 3 THOMAS KYD, from letters to the Lord Keeper (BM Harl. MS 6849, 6848), 1593; 4 RICHARD BAINES, from BM Harl. MS 6848, 1593; 5 GEORGE PEELE, from 'The Honour of the Garter', 1593; 6 GABRIEL HARVEY, from 'A New Letter of Notable Contents', 1593; 7 JOSEPH HALL, from 'Virgidemiarum', 1597-8

8 THOMAS BEARD, from 'The Theatre of Gods Judgements', 15979 WILLIAM RANKINS, from 'Seauen Satyres', 1598; 10 EDWARD BLUNT, from 'Hero and Leander by Christopher Marloe', 1598; 11 GEORGE CHAPMAN; (a) From the dedication to 'Hero and Leander': Begun by Christopher Marlowe; and finished by George Chapman, 1598; (b) From 'Hero and Leander', the Third Sestyad; 12 FRANCIS MERES, from 'Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury', 1598; 13 From 'The Parnassus Plays', 1598-1601; 14 WILLIAM VAUGHAN, from 'The Golden-grove', 1600

15 MICHAEL DRAYTON, from To my Most Dearely-Loved Friend Henry Reynolds, Esquire, of Poets and Poesie, 162716 WILLIAM PRYNNE, from 'Histrio-Mastix', 1633; 17 THOMAS HEYWOOD, from 'The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta', 1633: (a) the Epistle; (b) the Prologue at Court; (c) the Prologue at the Cockpit; 18 BEN JONSON, from 'Timber', 1640; II (1660-1782); 19 EDWARD PHILLIPS, from ""Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum', 1675; 20 WILLIAM WINSTANLEY, from 'The Lives of the most Famous English Poets', 1687; 21 GERARD LANGBAINE, from 'An Account of the English Dramatick Poets', 1691

22 ANTHONY À WOOD, from 'Athenae Oxonienses', 169123 THEOPHILUS CIBBER, from 'The Lives of the Poets', 1753; 24 THOMAS WARTON, from 'The History of English Poetry', 1781; 25 JOSEPH RITSON, from 'Observations on ... the History of English Poetry', 1782; III (1782-1896); 26 THOMAS DERMODY, from 'Poems; Moral and Descriptive', 1800; 27 CHARLES LAMB, from 'Specimens of English Dramatic Poets', 1808; 28 Edmund Kean's revival of 'The Jew of Malta' in 1818; (a) Unsigned review in 'Blackwood's', May 1818; (b) Unsigned review in 'European Magazine', May 1818

(c) From F. W. Hawkins, 'The Life of Edmund Kean', 186929 WILLIAM HAZLITT, from Lectures ... on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, 1820; 30 J. P. COLLIER, from the 'Edinburgh Review', 1820; 31 JAMES BROUGHTON, from the 'Gentleman's Magazine', 1830; 32 LEIGH HUNT, from 'Imagination and Fancy', 1844; 33 ALEXANDER DYCE, from 'The Works of Christopher Marlowe', 1850; 34 G. H. LEWES, from 'The Life and Works of Goethe', 1864; 35 EDWARD DOWDEN, from the 'Fortnightly Review', 1870; 36 H. A. TAINE, from 'A History of English Literature', 1872

37 H. N. HUDSON, from 'Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters', 1872

Notes:

First published in 1979.

Includes bibliography and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed March 13, 2024).

ISBN:

1-00-306002-1

1-134-78312-4

1-003-06002-1

0-415-04052-3

1-134-78313-2

1-280-04918-9

0-203-37983-7

9781003060024

OCLC:

823389027