Christopher Marlowe's four major plays are daring explorations of themes such as the nature of kingship, salvation and damnation, sexuality, and ethnic prejudice. This book links in-depth discussions of extracts from these major to enhance our understanding of Marlowe's themes, style, and significance in the evolution of Elizabethan drama.
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"...offers new students...analytical skills through which to approach Marlowe's works, while also highlighting the central themes..."--Katherine Larson, MSA Book Reviews
The discussion is sensitive and judicious throughout. This book will serve its intended audience well. Choice
The discussion is sensitive and judicious throughout. This book will serve its intended audience well. Choice
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Stevie Simkin is Senior Lecturer in Drama, King Alfred's College of Higher Education.
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The pattern of this first chapter of extracts will not match the layout of the chapters that follow: rather than looking closely at one passage from each of Marlowe's plays, as most subsequent chapters will, in this opening section we are going to consider two extracts from each play, the prologue and the first scene. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Doctor Faustus, Old Man, Helen of Troy, Good Angel, Analysing Marlowe, Elizabethan England, Friar Barnardine, Harry Levin, Methods of Analysis, Bishop of Winchester, Black Humour, Jonathan Dollimore, Dido Queen of Carthage, Evil Angel, Radical Tragedy, The Merchant of Venice, Lord Admiral's Men, Lord Protector, Marlowe's Edward, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Virgins of Damascus New!
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The pattern of this first chapter of extracts will not match the layout of the chapters that follow: rather than looking closely at one passage from each of Marlowe's plays, as most subsequent chapters will, in this opening section we are going to consider two extracts from each play, the prologue and the first scene. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stately tent, opening soliloquy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Doctor Faustus, Old Man, Helen of Troy, Good Angel, Analysing Marlowe, Elizabethan England, Friar Barnardine, Harry Levin, Methods of Analysis, Bishop of Winchester, Black Humour, Jonathan Dollimore, Dido Queen of Carthage, Evil Angel, Radical Tragedy, The Merchant of Venice, Lord Admiral's Men, Lord Protector, Marlowe's Edward, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Virgins of Damascus New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Jew Of Malta by Christopher Marlowe on 34 pages
- The Jew of Malta (Dover Thrift Editions) by Christopher Marlowe on 34 pages
- Dr. Faustus (Dover Thrift Editions) by Christopher Marlowe on 29 pages
- Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by Jonathan Dollimore on 5 pages
- The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
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- Shakespeare: Three Problem Plays (Analysing Texts) by Nicholas Marsh in Front Matter
- Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the Plays by Laurie Maguire in Back Matter
- William Blake: the Poems (Analysing Texts) by Nicholas Marsh in Front Matter
- George Eliot: The Novels (Analysing Texts (Palgrave MacMillan)) by Mike Edwards in Front Matter
- William Blake: the Poems (Analysing Texts) by Nicholas Marsh in Front Matter
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