Elizabethan Marlowe: Writing and Culture in the English Renaissance

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Rowman & Littlefield, 1994 - Drama - 113 pages
Intended as a discussion suitable for students, this book considers all Marlowe's major works in their historical and discursive context: Tamburlaine, Parts I and II, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, Doctor Faustus, and Hero and Leander. Marlowe's writing emerges as embedded in the historical processes of his time and as crossed by the contradictory discourses of his day.

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Contents

Life and Context
11
Tamburlaine Empire and Stoicism
14
The Jew of Malta Policy and Greed
31
Edward II Power and Love
44
Doctor Faustus Science and Religion
62
Hero and Leander Love and Fate
76
Notes
92
Index
107
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William Zunder is Emeritus Fellow in English at the University of Hull. He was educated at Selhurst Grammar School, Croydon, Magdalen College, Oxford, McMaster University, Canada, and Birkbeck College, London, where he gained a doctorate in English and Latin literature. His publications include The Poetry of John Donne (1982), Elizabethan Marlowe (1994), Writing and the English Renaissance (with Suzanne Trill, 1996), and Paradise Lost: John Milton (1999). His most recent book, Renaissance and Contemporary (2015), is a collection of essays on Sir Thomas Wyatt, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and John Donne in the English Renaissance, and Tony Harrison in contemporary Britain. William Zunder is married with four children and a lot of grandchildren.

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