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Christopher Marlowe Paperback - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Richard Wilson
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- Title Christopher Marlowe
- Author Richard Wilson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 286
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, Harlow, Essex, England
- Date 1999-02-25
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780582237070
- ISBN 9780582237070 / 0582237076
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.46 x 0.64 in (21.59 x 13.87 x 1.63 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Marlowe, Christopher - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98046865
- Dewey Decimal Code 822.3
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Longman Critical Readers
General Editor: Stan Smith
Research Professor in Literary Studies, Nottingham Trent University
This important series takes full account of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of key modern readings of major authors, genres and critical approaches. Prefaced by a wide-ranging editorial introduction setting the readings in context and exploring the issues they raise, individual volumes in the series offer the student authoritative and stimulating guides to the best theoretically-informed critical work on subjects from the Middle Ages to the present.
Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this collection of essays is that Marlowe shares the post-modern preoccupation with the language of power - and the power of language itself. As Richard Wilson shows in his introduction, it is no accident that the founding essays of New Historicism were on Marlowe; nor that current Queer Theorists focus so much on his images of gender and homosexuality. Marlowe staged both the birth of the modern author and the origin of modern sexual desire, and it is this unique conjunction that makes his drama a key to contemporary debates about the state and the self: from pornography to gays in the military.
Gay Studies, Cultural Materialism, New Historicism and Reader Response Criticism are all represented in this selection, which the introduction places in the light not only of theorists like Althusser, Bataille and Bakhtin, but also of artists and writers such as Jean Genet and Robert Mapplethorpe. Many of the essays take off from Marlowe's extreme dramatisations of arson, cruelty and aggression, suggesting why it is that the thinker who has been most convincingly applied to his theatre is the philosopher of punishment and pain, Michel Foucault. Others explore the exclusiveness of this all-male universe, and reveal why it remains so offensive and impenetrable to feminism. For what they all make disturbingly clear is Marlowe's violent, untamed difference from the cliches and correctness of normative society.
Richard Wilson is Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Programme at Lancaster University.