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Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

By: Dr Andrew Duxfield

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1472439511

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9781472439512

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

By: Dr Mathew R Martin

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Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

By: Dr Mathew R Martin

Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic and the traumatic.

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1472431561

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Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England

Ten Case Studies

By: Dr Matthew Steggle

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Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England

Ten Case Studies

By: Dr Matthew Steggle

This book establishes new information about the likely content of ten lost plays from the period 1580–1642. The plays’ authors include Nashe, Heywood, and Dekker; and they connect in direct ways to some of the most canonical dramas of English literature, including Hamlet, King Lear, The Changeling, and The Duchess of Malfi. In the process, the study offers innovative thinking both on the practicalities of digital humanities and on the emerging field of lost play studies.

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1409444147

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9781409444145

Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama

Republicanism, Stoicism and Authority

By: Dr Daniel Cadman

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Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama

Republicanism, Stoicism and Authority

By: Dr Daniel Cadman

In this book, Daniel Cadman examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as ‘closet drama’, during the years 1590–1613. In analyzing how these plays illuminate various aspects of early modern political culture, the book addresses gaps in the scholarship of early modern drama and explores new contexts in relation to more familiar writers, as well as extending the critical debate to include hitherto neglected authors.

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1472435206

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9781472435200

Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

By: Dr Andrew Duxfield

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Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

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In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the ambiguity of the plays, he suggests, this focus produces a tension that both heightens dramatic effect and facilitates a cynical response to contemporary evocations of and pleas for unity. This book has three main aims. Firstly, it establishes that Marlowe’s tragedies exhibit a profound interest in the process of reduction and the ideal of unity. Duxfield shows this interest to manifest itself in different ways in each of the plays. Secondly, it identifies this interest in unity and unification as an engagement in a cultural discourse that was particularly prevalent in England during Marlowe’s writing career; during the late 1580s and early 1590s heightened inter-confessional tension, the threat and reality of foreign invasion and public puritan dissent in the form of the Marprelate controversy provoked considerable public anxiety about social discord. Thirdly, the book considers the plays’ focus on unity in relation to their marked ambiguity; throughout all of the plays, unifying ideals and reductive processes are consistently subject to renegotiation with, or undercut entirely by, the complexity and ambiguity of the dramas in which they feature. Duxfield’s focus on unity as a theme throughout the plays provides a new lens through which to examine the place of Marlowe’s work in its cultural moment.

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1472439538

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Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England

Digital Humanities and the Lost Drama of Early Modern England

Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama

Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama

Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify

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