Marlowe: Literary Criticism
*The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe
*Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life
- Author: Lisa Hopkins
- Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2000.
- Details: Paperback. 177pp.
- ISBN: 0333698258
- Review: classiclit.about.com
- Summary: Marlowe's literary career, incl. his use of foreign locations, scholarship, his portrayal of family relations, and the challenge he posed to the establishment.
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Marlowe: A Critical Study
- Author: J.B.Steane
- Published: Cambridge University Press 1964; 1970.
- Details: Hard cover; Paperback. 390pp.
- ISBN: 0521065453; 0521096243
- Summary: A Critical Study
- Reviews: David Cope
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*Marlowe: A Collection of Critical Essays
- Editor: Clifford Leech
- Published: Prentice-Hall, NJ 1964.
- Details: Paperback. 184pp.
- ISBN: 0135583535
- Summary: Intro by Leech and 14 essays incl: Christopher Marlowe(T.S.Eliot); Marlowe's Map (Ethel Seaton); The Damnation of Faustus (W.W.Greg); Marlowe's Atheist Lecture (Paul H. Kocher).
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Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
- Editors: Sara Munson Deats, Robert A. Logan
- Published: Ashgate Publishing Feb 2008.
- Details: Hard cover. 256pp. [Contents]
- ISBN: 0754662047
- Summary: A collection of essays on Marlowe the playwright, covering aspects such as "the anti-theatrical debate", Machiavellian ideology, violence, addiction and Marlowe's influence on Shakespeare. Contributors incl. C.B.Kuriyama and Bevington.
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Christopher Marlowe: Renaissance Dramatist
- Author: Lisa Hopkins, Sean McEvoy (Ed.)
- Published: Edinburgh University Press April 2008.
- Details: Hard cover. 192pp.
- ISBN: 0748624732
- Summary: An accessible introduction to Marlowe's plays, exploring themes such as religion, the New World and sexuality. Six chapters cover: life & death; his canon; theatrical context; knowledge; transgressing established values; common critical issues.
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Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy
- Author: Douglas Cole
- Publisher: Greenwood Press 1995.
- Details: Hard cover; Paperback. 200pp.
- ISBN: 0313275165; 0275936732
- Summary: Examines Marlowe's plays as innovative experiments in redefining renaissance tragic drama.
- Reviews: Greenwood Publishing Group
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Marlowe's Tamburlaine: A Study in Renaissance Moral Philosophy
- Author: Roy W. Battenhouse
- Published: Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, Tennessee 1941, 64, 66.
- Details: Hard cover. 226pp.
- Summary: "Tamburlaine as Machiavellian hero-villain"
- Reviews: David Cope
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Christopher Marlowe
- Author: Thomas Healy
- Published: Northcote House Publishers 1994.
- Details: Paperback. 96pp.
- ISBN: 0746307071
- Summary: A good, brief, critical introduction to Marlowe's work.
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Christopher Marlowe
- Series: Longman Critical Readers
- Editor: Richard Wilson
- Published: Longman 1999.
- Details: Hard cover. Textbook. 288pp.
- ISBN: 0582237076
- Summary: Marlowe's work considered from a variety of angles, incl. historicism, homosexuality and feminism.
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From Mankind to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor England
- Author: David Bevington
- Published: Harvard UP 1962.
- Details: Hard cover. 320pp.
- ISBN: 0674325001
- Subtitle: Marlowe's relationship to earlier theatrical forms.
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Marlowe and the Politics of Elizabethan Theatre
- Author: Simon Shepherd
- Published: Prentice-Hall 1988.
- Details: Paperback. 256pp.
- ISBN: 0710813139
- Summary: Marlowe's plays read in the context of the Elizabethan theatre.
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Elizabethan Fustian (Vol I)
- Author: Eleanor Grace Clark
- Published: NY Oxford Press 1937.
- Details: Hard cover. 223pp.
- Summary: A study in the social and political backgrounds of the drama, with particular reference to Christopher Marlowe.
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*Ralegh and Marlowe
- Author: Eleanor Grace Clark
- Published: Fordham University Press, New York 1941.
- Details: Hard cover. 488pp.
- Summary: Links between Sir Walter Ralegh and Marlowe.
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Christopher Marlowe
- Author: Roger Sales
- Published: MacMillan Palgrave 1991.
- Details: Hard cover. 177pp.
- ISBN: 0312062397
- Contents: Pt I: The Dramatised Society (1) Educational Stage (2) Theatre of Hell (3) Accidental Death of a Spy. Pt II: The Drama (1) Tamburlaine (2) Jew of Malta (3) Edward II (4) Dr Faustus.
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The Overreacher
- Author: Harry Levin
- Published: Faber 1954 (Paperback 1967)
- Details: Hardcover. 231pp.
- ISBN: 0-57-107028-0 (Paperback)
- Review: RES Vol.8 No.30
- Summary: A discussion of Marlowe's themes, structure, imagery, and stagecraft, and projected psychoanalysis of the author based on his work.
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