Localizing Christopher Marlowe - His Life, Plays and Mythology, 1575-1593

This study punctures stereotyped portrayals of Marlowe, and in doing so reveals the social and cultural discourses out of which such myths emerged.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Timeline
Note for the Reader

Introduction

Part I: Life
1. Matthew Parker and the Norwich-Corpus Connection
2. Marlowe in the Community of Canterbury Scholars
3. The Origin of the Rumour against Marlowe
4. Marlowe and the Privy Council

Part II: Plays
5. Dido, Elizabeth I, and the University Playwrights

6. Tamburlaine's Prophetic Oratory and the English Holy War
7. The Jew of Malta and the Diabolic Power of Theatrics
8. Ramism, Thomas Nashe, and the 'New Sects of Singularitie'

Part III: Myths
9. Robert Greene on Marlowe's Atheism
10. The Genesis of the Marlowe Myth
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Transcript of the plan in Norfolk Record Office, NRS 23372, Z99
Appendix 2: Transcript of the plan in Corpus Christi College Archives, CCCC08/28
Appendix 3: Transcript and translation of the John Marley vs Nevell Hayes case
Appendix 4: List of Foundation Scholars of Corpus Christi College, 1573-87
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Arata Ide is Professor in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Arata Ide
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2025
• EAN: 9781843847533
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-753-3
• No. of pages: 446
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 621 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918