Christopher MarloweRoutledge, 15 jul 2014 - 286 pagina's Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this collection of essays is that Marlowe shares the post-modern preoccupation with the language of power - and the power of language itself. As Richard Wilson shows in his introduction, it is no accident that the founding essays of New Historicism were on Marlowe; nor that current Queer Theorists focus so much on his images of gender and homosexuality. Marlowe staged both the birth of the modern author and the origin of modern sexual desire, and it is this unique conjunction that makes his drama a key to contemporary debates about the state and the self: from pornography to gays in the military. Gay Studies, Cultural Materialism, New Historicism and Reader Response Criticism are all represented in this selection, which the introduction places in the light not only of theorists like Althusser, Bataille and Bakhtin, but also of artists and writers such as Jean Genet and Robert Mapplethorpe. Many of the essays take off from Marlowe's extreme dramatisations of arson, cruelty and aggression, suggesting why it is that the thinker who has been most convincingly applied to his theatre is the philosopher of punishment and pain, Michel Foucault. Others explore the exclusiveness of this all-male universe, and reveal why it remains so offensive and impenetrable to feminism. For what they all make disturbingly clear is Marlowe's violent, untamed difference from the clichés and correctness of normative society. |
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Scribe Script and Circumscription in Marlowes Plays | 30 |
The Case of Christopher Marlowe | 54 |
Gender Relations in Marlowe | 62 |
Dido Queen of Carthage | 83 |
Marlowe Rankins and Theatrical Images | 95 |
7 Legitimating Tamburlaine | 111 |
Tamburlaine the Great and Ivan the Terrible | 120 |
11 King Edwards Body | 174 |
12 Marlowe and the Observation of Men | 191 |
Marlowes Massacre at Paris | 215 |
Subversion through Transgression | 235 |
Doctor Faustus | 246 |
Notes on Authors | 266 |
Further Reading | 268 |
Index | 271 |
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