LISA HOPKINS is a Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University as is editor of
Early Modern Literary Studies. Previous publications include
Elizabeth I and Her Court, John Ford's Political Theatre and
The Shakespearean Marriage: Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands.
Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them, the importance of his scholarly background, his consistent portrayal of family groups as fissured and troubled, the challenge that his works posed to contemporary orthodoxies about religion, sexuality, and government, and the long and sometimes spectacular afterlife of his works and of his literary reputation as a whole.
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1580-1587: Canterbury and Cambridge 1587-1589: London and the World 1589-1592: Daring God out of Heaven 1592-1593: Tobacco and Boys A Great Reckoning: From 1593 to Immortality Index
'Hopkins's literary insights are confident, and invaluable...Marlowe emerges from this up-to-the-minute essay as a complex figure.' - Michael Caines, The Times Literary Supplement
Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them, the importance of his scholarly background, his consistent portrayal of family groups as fissured and troubled, the challenge that his works posed to contemporary orthodoxies about religion, sexuality, and government, and the long and sometimes spectacular afterlife of his works and of his literary reputation as a whole.
'Hopkins's literary insights are confident, and invaluable...Marlowe emerges from this up-to-the-minute essay as a complex figure.' - Michael Caines, The Times Literary Supplement
LISA HOPKINS is a Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University as is editor of
Early Modern Literary Studies. Previous publications include
Elizabeth I and Her Court, John Ford's Political Theatre and
The Shakespearean Marriage: Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands.
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Lisa Hopkins
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1580-1587: Canterbury and Cambridge 1587-1589: London and the World 1589-1592: Daring God out of Heaven 1592-1593: Tobacco and Boys A Great Reckoning: From 1593 to Immortality Index
Klappentext
Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them, the importance of his scholarly background, his consistent portrayal of family groups as fissured and troubled, the challenge that his works posed to contemporary orthodoxies about religion, sexuality, and government, and the long and sometimes spectacular afterlife of his works and of his literary reputation as a whole.
1 Reputation of the series
2 Synthesizes debate over composition and dating of Marlowe canon
3 Lisa Hopkins is senior critic of Renaissance Drama
4 New material on Marlowe's representation of the play's geographical settings
