Title: Critical essays on Christopher Marlowe /
Authors: Bartels, Emily Carroll.
Publisher: G.K. Hall ; Prentice Hall International,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Marlowe, Christopher, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: Contains a selection of critical essays on sixteenth-century English dramatist and poet Christopher Marlowe, including reprinted and newly commissioned materials, discussing his representations of ethnic, social, religious, and sexual differences in early modern England, as well as his subversion of issues of hegemony.
Contents: Textual indeterminacy and ideological difference : the case of Doctor Faustus / Leah S. Marcus -- Marlowe's quarrel with God / David Riggs -- [Machiavel's ghost} / Thomas Cartelli -- The death of the modern : gender and desire in Marlowe's "Hero and leander" / David Lee Miller -- Malta, the Jew, and the fictions of difference : colonialist discourse in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta / Emily C. Bartels -- Managing the barbarian : The tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage / Margo Hendricks -- Writing Edward II / Gregory W. Bredbeck -- Renaissance execution and Marlovian elocution : the drama of death / Karen Cunningham -- Sights of power in Tamburlaine / David H. Thurn -- Reading Faustus's God / Alan Sinfield.