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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Innovation in the English Drama Before 1595 Ruth Lunney. Dutton , Richard . '
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Shakespeare and Marlowe : Censorship and Construction ' . Yearbook of English
Studies 23 ( 1993 ) : 1-29 . Eccles , Christine . The Rose Theatre . London : Hern
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Innovation in the English Drama Before 1595 Ruth Lunney. Malta , Volpone , and
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Innovation in the English Drama Before 1595 Ruth Lunney. " Sovereignty ,
Disorder , and Fetishism in Marlowe's Edward II ' . Renaissance Drama ns 21 (
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Disorder , and Fetishism in Marlowe's Edward II ' . Renaissance Drama ns 21 (
1990 ) : 115-41 . Tweedie , Eleanor M. ' " Action Is Eloquence " : The Staging of
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Contents
Approaches and contexts | 14 |
Viewing the sign | 36 |
Lessons of history | 67 |
Framing the action | 93 |
Looking at Angels | 124 |
Managing the space | 158 |
Till experience change | 182 |
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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 |
| 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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