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In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. Duxfield's focus on unity as a theme throughout the plays provides a new l
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Introduction
1 Building a Statelier Troy: Dido, Queen of Carthage
2 Reduced to a Map: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two
3 "Resolve me of all ambiguities": Doctor Faustus
4 Individual and Multitude: The Jew of Malta and The Massacre at Paris
5 True Contraties: Edward II
Afterword
Info autore
Andrew Duxfield is Lecturer in English Literature at Coventry University, UK.
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In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. Duxfield’s focus on unity as a theme throughout the plays provides a new l
