The Marlowe Society

The Hoffman Prize

Past Winners
Year Winner(s) Establishment Essay Title Adjudicator
1988-
1994
Unknown     Stanley Wells
Ernst Honigman
1995 Prof. Jonathan Bate University of Liverpool Marlowe's Ghost T.W.Craik
1996 Unknown     T.W.Craik
1997 Jill Farringdon University of Swansea Attributing Marlowe and Shakespeare Darryll Grantley
1998 Prof. David Riggs Stanford University The Killing of Christopher Marlowe Darryll Grantley
1999 Prof. Kent Cartwright University of Maryland Bearing Witness to Tamburlaine Darryll Grantley
2000 Prize not awarded     Jonathan Bate
2001 Prof. Michael Hattaway MA PhD University of Sheffield Myths of Empire, State and Nation in Marlovian and Shakespearian Texts Jonathan Bate
  Michael Rubbo The Helpful Eye, NSW Much Ado About Something
(video documentary)
 
2002 Dr. Peter Roberts University of Kent 'View but his picture in this tragic glass': Marlowe's Image and Identity Jonathan Bate
  Lukas Erne Geneva University Biography, Mythography, and Criticism: the Life and Works of Marlowe  
2003 Prof. A.L. Goldberger MD
Albert C.C. Yang MD
C.K. Peng PhD
Harvard Medical School The Marlowe-Shakespeare Authorship Debate: Approaching an Old Problem with New Methods Jonathan Bate
2004 Prize not awarded     Unknown
2005 Prof. Tom Bishop University of Auckland
University of Case Western Reserve, Ohio
The Shadow of Your Sorrow: Marlowe's Presence in Shakespeare's Richard II Unknown
2006 Dr. Martin Wiggins The Shakespeare Institute,
University of Birmingham
When did Marlowe Write 'Dido, Queen of Carthage'? Park Honan
2007 Peter Farey MA   Hoffman and the Authorship Park Honan
  Timothy D. Crowley University of Maryland Arms and the Boy: Aeneas & the Parody of Imitation in Dido, Queen of Carthage  

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