Shakespeare's Marlowe
Subtitle: the influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's artistry
By: Robert A. Logan.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780754657637
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Literary style; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Technique; Marlowe, Christopher, -- 1564-1593 -- Influence; Marlowe, Christopher, -- 1564-1593 -- Literary style; Marlowe, Christopher, -- 1564-1593 -- Technique; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism, Textual; Marlowe, Christopher, -- 1564-1593 -- Criticism, Textual; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Description: "Moving beyond traditional studies of sources and influence, Shakespeare's Marlowe analyzes the uncommonly powerful aesthetic bond between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Not only does this study take into account recent ideas about intertextuality, but it also shows how the process of tracking Marlowe's influence itself prompts questions and reflections that illuminate the dramatists' connections. Further, alter questioning the commonly held view of Marlowe and Shakespeare as rivals, the individual chapters suggest new possible interrelationships in the formation of Shakespeare's works. Such examination of Shakespeare's Marlovian inheritance enhances our understanding of the dramaturgical strategies of each writer and illuminates the importance of such strategies as shaping forces on their works."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Marlowe and Shakespeare : repositioning the question of sources and influence; title: Unfelt imaginations : influence and characterization in The massacre at Paris, Titus Andronicus, and Richard III; title: Hero and Leander and Venus and Adonis : artistic individuality and the ideology of containment; title: Edward II, Richard II, the will to play, and an aesthetic of ambiguity; title: For a tricksy word / defy the matter : the influence of The Jew of Malta on The merchant of Venice; title: Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays, Shakespeare's Henry V, and the primacy of an artistic consciousness; title: Making the haunt his : Dido, Queen of Carthage as a precursor to Antony and Cleopatra; title: Glutted with conceit : imprints of Doctor Faustus on Macbeth and The tempest; title: Conclusion : Marlovian incentives.