Marlowe's republican authorship
Subtitle: Lucan, liberty, and the sublime
By: Patrick Cheney.
Series: Early modern literature in history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: NewYork
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781403933416
Subjects: Marlowe, Christopher, -- 1564-1593 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Marlowe, Christopher, -- 1564-1593 -- Political and social views.; Republicanism in literature.; Republicanism -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Liberty in literature.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Republican representation: Marlowe, the Age of Elizabeth, and Lucan's first book; value: Authorship, freedom, and rapture in Marlowe's Ovidian poems; value: Defend his freedom against a monarchy?: empire and liberty in Dido, Queen of Carthage and Tamburlaine, parts one and two; value: Machevill's republican monarchy: civil war in The Jew of Malta, The massacre at Paris, and Edward II; value: To make man live eternally: the skeptical sublime in Doctor Faustus.