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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Like the blood that is ' unwilling ' and ' streaming ' in turn , like the inscription that
appears and vanishes , the meanings of words shift and slide . The bond -
signing restructures the traditional rhetoric of visual signs . In recording
experience ...
Like the blood that is ' unwilling ' and ' streaming ' in turn , like the inscription that
appears and vanishes , the meanings of words shift and slide . The bond -
signing restructures the traditional rhetoric of visual signs . In recording
experience ...
Page 97
Here before the spectator is enacted demonstration after demonstration of
avarice , deceit , hypocrisy , and , not least , the ' pestilent Machivilian pollicy ' (
the phrase is Robert Greene ' s ) that appears to have fascinated the
contemporary ...
Here before the spectator is enacted demonstration after demonstration of
avarice , deceit , hypocrisy , and , not least , the ' pestilent Machivilian pollicy ' (
the phrase is Robert Greene ' s ) that appears to have fascinated the
contemporary ...
Page 141
Before the Angels appear in 2 . 1 , for example , he is shown to be aware of the
elements of his spiritual conflict , and responsive – like any morality figure – both
to statements that present as thoughts ( ' Despair in God , and trust in Beelzebub
...
Before the Angels appear in 2 . 1 , for example , he is shown to be aware of the
elements of his spiritual conflict , and responsive – like any morality figure – both
to statements that present as thoughts ( ' Despair in God , and trust in Beelzebub
...
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Contents
Approaches and contexts | 9 |
Viewing the sign | 36 |
Lessons of history | 79 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama Before 1595 Revels plays companion library |
| Author | Ruth Lunney |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0719061180, 9780719061189 |
| Length | 246 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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