Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

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Contents: Introduction: placing the plays of Christopher Marlowe: fresh cultural contexts, Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan. Part 1 Marlowe and the Theater: 'Mark this show': magic and theater in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Sara Munson Deats Marlowe's Edward II and the early playhouse audience, Ruth Lunney Edmund Kean, anti-Semitism and The Jew of Malta, Stephanie Moss. Part 2 Marlowe and the Family: The hopeless daughter of a hapless Jew: father and daughter in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, Lagretta Tallent Lenker A study in ambivalence: mothers and their sons in Christopher Marlowe, Joyce Karpay Masculinity, performance, and identity: father/son dyads in Christopher Marlowe's plays, Merry G. Perry. Part 3 Marlowe, Ethics and Religion: Almost famous, always iterable: Doctor Faustus as meme of academic performativity, Rick Bowers Misbelief, false profession and The Jew of Malta, William M. Hamlin Doctor Faustus and the early modern language of addiction, Deborah Willis Rhetorical strategies for a locus terribilis: senses, signs, symbols, and theological allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris, Christine McCall Probes Barabas and Charles I, John Parker. Part 4 Marlowe and Shakespeare: Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the theoretically irrelevant author, Constance Brown Kuriyama 'Glutted with conceit': imprints of Doctor Faustus on The Tempest, Robert A. Logan Christopher Marlowe: the late years, David Bevington Comprehensive bibliography Index.

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