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Format: XV, 421 S. , Ill., Kt.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9780198186953 , 0198186959

Content: "Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed picture of Marlowe's life in over fifty years. Based on years of meticulous research, Park Honan's biography contains many new findings, including details of Marlowe's home life and schooling, his time at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and his reading, teachers, and early achievements. A newly-discovered letter has provided information on the famous putative portrait at Cambridge, while the Latin writings of Marlowe's friend, Thomas Watson, are used for the first time to illuminate Marlowe's life in London and his career as a spy. There are new accounts of his espionage on the continent, including in particular his arrest in Flushing." "This is also the first biography to investigate thoroughly Marlowe's relationships with fellow playwrights such as Kyd and Shakespeare, and his chief patron, Thomas Walsingham. With closer views of Marlowe in relation to the Elizabethan stage than ever before, Honan examines in detail his aims, mind, and techniques as exhibited in all of his plays, from Dido, the Tamburlaine dramas, and Doctor Faustus through to The Jew of Malta and Edward II." "Throughout, there is a strong emphasis on Marlowe's friendships and homoeroticism. Fresh information is brought to bear on his seductive use of blasphemy, his street fights, his methods of preparing himself for writing, and his atheism and religious interests. The book also explores his attraction to scientists and mathematicians such as Thomas Harriot and others in the Ralegh-Northumberland set of thinkers and experimenters. Finally, there is new data on spies and business agents such as Robert Poley, Nicholas Skeres, and Ingram Frizer, and a detailed account of the circumstances that led up to Marlowe's gruesome murder in Deptford."--BOOK JACKET.

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Marlowe, Christopher 1564-1593 ; Biografie ; Biografie

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Author information: Honan, Park 1928-

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Format: VIII, 279 S. , Ill.

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1559-1603 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1559-1603 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1560-1600

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Format: VI, 239 S.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 9780521766920

Content: "The Elizabethan history play was one of the most prevalent dramatic genres of the 1590s, and so was a major contribution to Elizabethan historical culture. The genre has been well served by critical studies that emphasize politics and ideology; however, there has been less interest in the way history is interrogated as an idea in these plays. Drawing in period-sensitive ways on the field of contemporary performance theory, Walsh looks at the Shakespearean history play from a fresh angle, by first analyzing the foundational work of the Queen's Men, the playing company that invented the popular history play. Through innovative readings of their plays including The Famous Victories of Henry V before moving on to Shakespeare's 1 Henry VI, Richard III, and Henry V, this book investigates how the Queen's Men's self-consciousness about performance helped to shape Shakespeare's dramatic and historical imagination"--Provided by publisher

Content: "Longing on a large scale is what makes history." Don DeLillo, Underworld In his 1589 treatise The Arte of English Poesie, George Puttenham diagnosed the limited ability of humans to perceive history. The past, according to Puttenham, is that which "we are not able [ . . . ] to attaine to the knowledge of, by any of our ences." History is defined by its inalienable absence. It exists only in forms of textual or pictorial representation, such as prose works, poetry, and illustrations, or in embodied acts such as storytelling and theatrical playing. In sixteenth-century England, these forms flourished as varying responses to a heightened awareness of the absence of history, an awareness that the intellectual ambitions of the Renaissance precipitated. Of all the forms of history, performance alone supplies a pretense of sensual contact with the vanished past through the bodies that move and speak on stage. The history plays that I consider in this book, from the repertory of the Queen's Men and by Shakespeare, grew out of a vibrant Elizabethan historical culture, and they in turn helped to shape a new historical outlook"--Provided by publisher

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Historisches Drama ; Queen's Men

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Format: viii, 340 Seiten

ISBN: 0801427452 , 0801480248

Content: Enclosure - the conversion of peasants' commonly held lands to privately owned pasture - has long been considered a critical stage in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This book is the first, however, to treat in detail the literary and cultural implications of enclosure in early modern England. Bringing together the work of both senior and younger scholars who represent a wide range of critical orientations, Enclosure Acts focuses not only on the historical fact of land enclosure but also on the symbolic containment of sexuality in Elizabethan and Jacobean literary works. The first type of enclosure frequently has been treated by materialists and new historicists; feminists and theorists concerned with issues of gender have tended to concentrate on the second. The fourteen essays collected here explore the relationships between these two ways of perceiving enclosure in the context of cultural studies. Individual chapters examine the creation of territorial and social boundaries as well as the consequences of enclosure acts. Taking into account the complex implications of changes in boundaries - whether of land, religion, sexuality, or subjectivity - the essays investigate aspects of literary culture from the Elizabethan popular theater to the enclosed world of the seventeenth-century country-house poem. Among the topics discussed are the significance of enclosure in plays such as Marlowe's Edward II and Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry VI, and in the poetry of Marvell and Spenser.

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Großbritannien ; Öffentliches Grundeigentum ; Privatisierung ; Geschichte 1550-1700 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Frau ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Erotik ; Geschichte 1590-1688 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Erotik ; Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Besitz ; Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Frau ; Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte 1500-1700 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: VIII, 258 S.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0853231427

Series Statement: Liverpool English texts and studies 13

Note: Shakespeare and the inward self of the tragic hero.--Character and role from Richard III to Hamlet.--Macbeth.--On some differences between Senecan and Elizabethan tragedy.--John Marston's Sophonisba: a reconsideration.--Cult and initiates in Ford's Love's Sacrifice.--Fulke Greville's dramatic characters.--The main outline of Chapman's Byron.--Marriage and the domestic drama in Heywood and Ford.--Chapman's tragedies.--Patient madman and honest whore: the Middleton-Dekker oxymoron.--A note on "opinion" in Daniel, Greville, and Chapman.--The Widow of Ephesus: some reflections on an international comic theme.--The poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh , Shakespeare and the inward self of the tragic hero.--Character and role from Richard III to Hamlet.--Macbeth.--On some differences between Senecan and Elizabethan tragedy.--John Marston's Sophonisba: a reconsideration.--Cult and initiates in Ford's Love's Sacrifice.--Fulke Greville's dramatic characters.--The main outline of Chapman's Byron.--Marriage and the domestic drama in Heywood and Ford.--Chapman's tragedies.--Patient madman and honest whore: the Middleton-Dekker oxymoron.--A note on "opinion" in Daniel, Greville, and Chapman.--The Widow of Ephesus: some reflections on an international comic theme.--The poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Englisch ; Drama ; Geschichte 1558-1625

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Format: VIII, 279 S. , Ill.

Edition: 1. publ. in paperback

ISBN: 0521295289

Series Statement: Bradbrook, Muriel C.: A history of Elizabethan drama 4

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1560-1600 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1559-1603 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1559-1603

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Format: XVIII, 277 S. , Ill.

ISBN: 0813508304

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Erotische Erzählung ; Englisch ; Geschichte 1558-1603 ; England ; Erotische Erzählung ; Geschichte 1558-1603 ; Englisch ; Verserzählung ; Erotik ; Geschichte 1580-1620 ; Englisch ; Erotische Erzählung ; Geschichte 1559-1603

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Format: 253 S.

Series Statement: Peregrine books Y48

Language: English

Keywords: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1559-1603

Author information: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616

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Format: VIII, 279 S. , Ill.

Edition: 2. impr.

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1559-1603 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1559-1603 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1560-1600

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Format: VIII,279 S.,1 Taf.

Edition: 3.impr.

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1559-1603 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1559-1603 ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Englisch ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1560-1600