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Zusatztext 'The chapters treat individual plays and are insightful and convincing throughout! but of particular interest are Martin's interpretations of Dido! Queene of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris! the two least-studied of Marlowe's plays...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' - B. E. Brandt! South Dakota State University! CHOICE"Martin offers challenging readings that rethink Marlowe's plays. His pervasive use of psychoanalysis should also renew the importance of this literary tool. Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe will appeal to undergraduates and academics studying these disciplines." - Frank Swannack! University of Salford! UK Informationen zum Autor Mathew R. Martin is Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University, Canada. He is author of Between Theatre and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton (2001), co-editor of Staging Pain, 1580-1800 (Ashgate, 2009), and author of articles on Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Ford. He has also edited Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Edward the Second, The Jew of Malta, and Tamburlaine the Great Part One and Part Two for Broadview Editions. Klappentext Contending that criticism of Marlowe's plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe's plays between the tragic and the traumatic. Zusammenfassung Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic and the traumatic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Tragedy and Trauma 1 Trauma, Faith, and Epic History in Dido, Queen of Carthage 2 Trauma and Tragedy in Tamburlaine the Great Part One 3 Tamburlaine the Great Part Two and the Refusal of Tragedy 4 Tragedy and Psychopathology in The Jew of Malta 5 Pain, History, and Theater in Edward II 6 The Traumatic Realism of The Massacre at Paris 7 Doctor Faustus and the Fundamental Fantasy ...
