Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-303) and index.
Contents:
Marlowe at work: argument. Marlowe's Lucan: winding sheets and scattered leaves / Sarah Wall-Randell -- Marlowe in repertory, 1587-1593 / Roslyn L. Knutson -- Marlowe in miniature: Dido, queen of Carthage and The children of the chapel repertory / Eoin Price -- 'Then breath a while': compression, kinesis, and temporality in The massacre at Paris / Evelyn Tribble -- Alarums: Edward II and the staging of history / Lucy Munro -- Doctor Faustus's leg / Genevieve Love -- Transmitting Marlowe: argument. Making Marlowe / Adam G. Hooks -- Making a scene, or Tamburlaine the Great in print / Claire M.L. Bourne -- Marlowe's early books: the contention and a 'Marlowe effect' / Peter Kirwan -- Richard Jones, Tamburlaine the Great, and the making (and remaking) of a serial play collection in the 1590s / Tara L. Lyons -- Companionate publishing, literary publics, and the Wit of Epyllia: the early success of Hero and Leander / András Kiséry -- Thomas Heywood and the publishing of The Jew of Malta / Richard Dutton -- Marlowe received: argument. Allusions to Marlowe in printed plays, 1594 / Tom Rutter -- The devil and Doctor Faustus / Paul Menzer -- Booking Marlowe's plays / David McInnis -- Marlowe's lost play: 'The maiden's holiday' / Matthew Steggle -- 'The best of poets in that age': Christopher Marlowe's posthumous reputation -- J.A. Downie.
Summary:
Presenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe's complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe's work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful chapters consider Marlowe's deliberate engagements with the stage and print culture, the agents and methods involved in the transmission of his work, and his cultural reception in the light of repertory and print evidence. With contributions from major international scholars, the volume considers all of Marlowe's oeuvre, offering illuminating approaches to his extended animation in theatre and print, from the putative theatrical debut of Tamburlaine in 1587 to the most current editions of his work.
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