Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy

List of contents

Series Foreword by Josh Beer, Christopher Innes, and Simon Williams
Prologue
Chronology
Matters of Life and Death
The World of the Theatre in the Reign of Elizabeth
Dido, Queen of Carthage: Tragedy in the Classical Tradition
Tamburlaine the Great: Tragical Discourse and Spectacle
Machiavellian Tragedy: The Massacre at Paris and The Jew of Malta
Edward II: Tragedy in the De Casibus Tradition
Doctor Faustus: Tragedy in the Allegorical Tradition
Marlowe's Legacy to Tragedy
Appendix A: Thomas Kyd's Accusations of Marlowe
Appendix B: Richard Baines' Note
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Drifter, the newest poetry collection by Douglas Cole, explores the world through Situationist Guy Debord's framework of the Dérive. An idea that intensifies observance with an acute attention to the various forces that draw us in or repel us from engaging with certain spaces, the Dérive as an action or a philosophical idea provides a nuanced, personal, political, even spiritual vocabulary for investigating the spectacle of our experience in the landscape of rooms, neighborhoods, cities, highways...

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Cole, Cole Douglas
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.1995
• EAN: 9780313275166
• ISBN: 978-0-313-27516-6
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, The Arts: Drama