Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama Before 1595Rejecting the traditional stereotypes of Marlowe (spy, troublemaker, homosexual, atheist, university wit) this study considers him as a popular dramatist who inherited an audience with certain expectations and shared experiences. It explores his engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response. This account of English drama in these important but largely neglected years challenges the narratives of change in late 16th century. It Discusses Marlowe's plays in relation to some 30 other playtexts, earlier and contemporary, including Shakespeare's early plays. Marlowe emerges not so much as a precursor of Shakespeare but as an innovator and catalyst of change, the playwright who exploited and transformed the traditional materials of popular drama. |
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... Three Ladies of London ( 1584 title - page ) . In this , Lady Love and Lady Conscience attempt to survive in a city dominated by ' Lady Lucar ' ( Lucre ) . They fail : Love becomes Lust and marries Dissimulation , and Conscience is ...
... Three Ladies of London ( 1584 title - page ) . In this , Lady Love and Lady Conscience attempt to survive in a city dominated by ' Lady Lucar ' ( Lucre ) . They fail : Love becomes Lust and marries Dissimulation , and Conscience is ...
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... Three Ladies the illustrations to the moral lessons are direct , down - to- earth , and topical : lists of the commodities England must export , for example , to provide foolish English ladies with imported trinkets and trifles . At the ...
... Three Ladies the illustrations to the moral lessons are direct , down - to- earth , and topical : lists of the commodities England must export , for example , to provide foolish English ladies with imported trinkets and trifles . At the ...
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... Three Ladies ; Three Lords Thomson , Peter 163 , 211n.5 , 213n.23 Three Ladies [ of London ] ( Wilson ) 3 , 9 , 28-34 , 195n.8 , 204n.11 , 205n.24 character 30 , 31-2 , 127 , 128 , 131 , 156 framing rhetoric 94-8 , 99 , 104-6 , 113-14 ...
... Three Ladies ; Three Lords Thomson , Peter 163 , 211n.5 , 213n.23 Three Ladies [ of London ] ( Wilson ) 3 , 9 , 28-34 , 195n.8 , 204n.11 , 205n.24 character 30 , 31-2 , 127 , 128 , 131 , 156 framing rhetoric 94-8 , 99 , 104-6 , 113-14 ...
Contents
Approaches and contexts | 14 |
Viewing the sign | 36 |
Lessons of history | 67 |
Copyright | |
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Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama before 1595 Ruth Lunney No preview available - 2011 |
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