This work focuses on Marlowe's works as an index of the major transformation of Elizabethan theatrical practices. In the opening chapter, Cole reviews the unusually intriguing historical record of Marlowe's life outside the theatre. The body of the book addresses Marlowe's individual plays as experiments in extending and redefining the traditional concepts and techniques of tragic drama, and suggests how his contemporaries and followers made use of his innovations. Intended as an introduction to the subject, this book provides an insightful approach to Marlowe's work and the study of Elizabethan thought and theatre.
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"Marlowe scholars will welcome this lucidly written book. In addition to chapter-by-chapter examinations of each of Marlowe's plays, Cole provides a brief biographical sketch of Marlowe and a description of the theater world in Queen Elizabeth's time...The infinite riches in this little book are not to be missed by any serious Marlovian scholar. Upper-division undergraduate upward." -- Choice
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Assesses the consequences of Marlowe's life in the theatre: how his plays transformed the literary traditions of his time and how they helped redefine the themes of tragedy.
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Christopher Marlowe's life in the theatre was cut short violently at the age of twenty-nice; but the life of this plays in the world of the theatre goes on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Christopher Marlowe's life in the theatre was cut short violently at the age of twenty-nice; but the life of this plays in the world of the theatre goes on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
humanist tragedy, morality drama, commercial theatre, adult companies, boy companies, acting companies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Faust Book, Doctor Faustus, Admiral's Men, Christopher Marlowe, Duke of Guise, Thomas Walsingham, Edward Alleyn, Lord Admiral, Privy Council, King Henry, Seven Deadly Sins, Thomas Kyd, Evil Angel, Inns of Court, Lord Strange, Robert Greene, Rose Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Marlowe's Faustus, Queen Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke, John Donne, King Edward, Marlowe's Legacy, Royal Shakespeare Company New!
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- Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre) by Marvin A. Carlson in Front Matter
- Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton by Thomas P. Anderson in Back Matter
- Michel Saint-Denis and the Shaping of the Modern Actor (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre) by Jane Baldwin in Front Matter
- David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by Finlay Donesky in Front Matter
- Harold Pinter and the New British Theatre (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre) by D. Keith Peacock in Front Matter
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