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Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this collection of essays is that Marlowe shares the post-modern preoccupation with the language of power - and the power of language itself. As Richard Wilson shows in his introduction, it is no accident that the founding essays of New Historicism were on Marlowe; nor that current Queer Theorists focus so much on his images of gender and homosexuality. Marlowe staged both the birth of the modern author and the origin of modern sexual desire, and it is this unique conjunction that makes his drama a key to contemporary debates about the state and the self: from pornography to gays in the military. Gay Studies, Cultural Materialism, New Historicism and Reader Response Criticism are all represented in this selection, which the introduction places in the light not only of theorists like Althusser, Bataille and Bakhtin, but also of artists and writers such as Jean Genet and Robert Mapplethorpe. Many of the essays take off from Marlowe's extreme dramatisations of arson, cruelty and aggression, suggesting why it is that the thinker who has been most convincingly applied to his theatre is the philosopher of punishment and pain, Michel Foucault. Others explore the exclusiveness of this all-male universe, and reveal why it remains so offensive and impenetrable to feminism. For what they all make disturbingly clear is Marlowe's violent, untamed difference from the clichés and correctness of normative society.

Table of Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION.  The Ruffian on the Stair. The Burning Library.  Confessions of a Mask.  The Bonfire of Vanities.  Saint Marlowe.  2. MARJORIE GARBER, `Here's Nothing Writ': Scribe, Script and Circumscription in Marlowe's Plays  3. JONATHAN GOLDBERG, Sodomy and Society: The Case of Christopher Marlowe  4. SIMON SHEPHERD, Representing `Women' and Males: Gender Relations in Marlowe  5. JONATHAN GOLDBERG, `Play the Sodomites, or Worse': `Dido Queen of Carthage'  6. JONATHAN CREWE, The Theatre of the Idols: Marlowe, Rankins, and Theatrical Images  7. ALAN SINFIELD, Legitimating Tamburlaine  8. RICHARD WILSON, Visible Bullets: `Tamburlaine the Great' and Ivan the Terrible  9. STEPHEN GREENBLATT, Marlowe, Marx, and Anti-Semitism  10. EMILY BARTELS, Malta: `The Jew of Malta', and the Fictions of Difference 11. THOMAS CARTELLI, King Edward's Body  12. JOHN ARCHER, Marlowe and the Observation of Men 13. JULIA BRIGGS, The Rites of Violence: Marlowe's `Massacre at Paris'  14. JONATHAN DOLLIMORE, `Doctor Faustus': Subversion through Transgression  15. HILARY GATTI, Bruno and Marlowe: `Doctor Faustus'

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  • ISBN-13: 9781317892052
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 286
  • ISBN-10: 1317892054
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 286
  • Series Title: Longman Critical Readers


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