Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama Before 1595Manchester University Press, 2002 - 246 páginas Rejecting the traditional stereotypes of Marlowe (spy, troublemaker, homosexual, atheist, university wit) this study considers him as a popular dramatist who inherited an audience with certain expectations and shared experiences. It explores his engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response. This account of English drama in these important but largely neglected years challenges the narratives of change in late 16th century. It Discusses Marlowe's plays in relation to some 30 other playtexts, earlier and contemporary, including Shakespeare's early plays. Marlowe emerges not so much as a precursor of Shakespeare but as an innovator and catalyst of change, the playwright who exploited and transformed the traditional materials of popular drama. |
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... drama of the 1580s . They emphasise the discontinuity , the gap between earlier playhouse offerings ( ' clownish ' , ' dreary ' , complacent ) and Marlowe's plays . Taking too much notice of Tamburlaine's Prologue , accounts such as ...
... drama of the 1580s . They emphasise the discontinuity , the gap between earlier playhouse offerings ( ' clownish ' , ' dreary ' , complacent ) and Marlowe's plays . Taking too much notice of Tamburlaine's Prologue , accounts such as ...
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... theatrical practice , then proceeding through a series of comparisons that locate Marlowe's practice against earlier and contemporary plays . These establish and define the differences between Marlowe and earlier plays and between Marlowe ...
... theatrical practice , then proceeding through a series of comparisons that locate Marlowe's practice against earlier and contemporary plays . These establish and define the differences between Marlowe and earlier plays and between Marlowe ...
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... Marlowe's plays in perfor- mance was not restricted to their more obviously spectacular effects ; rather , that they also transformed the language of theatrical space . The chapter looks at the staging of ceremonies , comparing Marlowe's ...
... Marlowe's plays in perfor- mance was not restricted to their more obviously spectacular effects ; rather , that they also transformed the language of theatrical space . The chapter looks at the staging of ceremonies , comparing Marlowe's ...
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Approaches and contexts | 14 |
Viewing the sign | 36 |
Lessons of history | 67 |
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