Scholars of English literature and theater from the US, Britain, and Australia explore the life and work of Elizabethan poet and playwright Marlowe (1564-93). Among their topics are Marlowe
thinking globally, whether he was a violent man, the Jew of Malta and the development of city comedy, direct address in the plays of Marlowe and his contemporaries, the eventfulness of Hero and
Leander, elegiac aesthetics and the epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood, the Roman destination of Doctor Faustus, and conversion and consumption in Tamburlaine: Part One. Annotation 穢2010 Book News,
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