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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... sixteenth - century cultural practices generally : the emblem and the exemplum . Chapter 3 ( ' Viewing the sign ' ) discusses the ' emblematic ' in sixteenth - century drama , with examples from the moralities including Wilson's ...
... sixteenth - century cultural practices generally : the emblem and the exemplum . Chapter 3 ( ' Viewing the sign ' ) discusses the ' emblematic ' in sixteenth - century drama , with examples from the moralities including Wilson's ...
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... sixteenth - century change . Perhaps the new ' Shakespearean ' charac- ter ( ' realistic ' , ' individual ' , and endowed with ' interiority ' ) did not exist in the sixteenth- or seventeenth - century theatre - and the notion of the ...
... sixteenth - century change . Perhaps the new ' Shakespearean ' charac- ter ( ' realistic ' , ' individual ' , and endowed with ' interiority ' ) did not exist in the sixteenth- or seventeenth - century theatre - and the notion of the ...
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... sixteenth - century playgoers might actually have seen . - Most comments on location and setting which potentially involve visible theatrical space - also show the same turning aside from performance to words . Typically in these ...
... sixteenth - century playgoers might actually have seen . - Most comments on location and setting which potentially involve visible theatrical space - also show the same turning aside from performance to words . Typically in these ...
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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