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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... earlier plays may speak of eyes and ears and what the players will present ( that to Clyomon and Clamydes , written some ten years or so earlier but revived by the Queen's Men after 1583 , calls upon the ' Glasse of glory ' and ' gentle ...
... earlier plays may speak of eyes and ears and what the players will present ( that to Clyomon and Clamydes , written some ten years or so earlier but revived by the Queen's Men after 1583 , calls upon the ' Glasse of glory ' and ' gentle ...
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... earlier years , even the early 1580s.23 After 1587 brought a rush of new playwrights and print- ings , more plays survived , though these are still only a fraction of what was performed . The surviving playtexts include , of those earlier ...
... earlier years , even the early 1580s.23 After 1587 brought a rush of new playwrights and print- ings , more plays survived , though these are still only a fraction of what was performed . The surviving playtexts include , of those earlier ...
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... earlier than it is to that of a play such as Richard II ten years or so later . 10 One index to this variation is the presentation of tournament and royal display . In Clyomon and Clamydes the rituals of knightly combat are presented ...
... earlier than it is to that of a play such as Richard II ten years or so later . 10 One index to this variation is the presentation of tournament and royal display . In Clyomon and Clamydes the rituals of knightly combat are presented ...
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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