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Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
Lisa Hopkins
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Description for Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
Hardcover. This volume situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them, and the importance of his scholarly background. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 419.
Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them, the importance of his scholarly background, his consistent portrayal of family groups as fissured and troubled, the challenge that his works posed to contemporary orthodoxies about religion, sexuality, and government, and the long and sometimes spectacular afterlife of his works and of his literary reputation as a whole.
Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them, the importance of his scholarly background, his consistent portrayal of family groups as fissured and troubled, the challenge that his works posed to contemporary orthodoxies about religion, sexuality, and government, and the long and sometimes spectacular afterlife of his works and of his literary reputation as a whole.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Literary Lives
Number of Pages
177
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333698235
SKU
V9780333698235
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About Lisa Hopkins
LISA HOPKINS is a Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University as is editor of Early Modern Literary Studies. Previous publications include Elizabeth I and Her Court, John Ford's Political Theatre and The Shakespearean Marriage: Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands.
Reviews for Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
'Hopkins's literary insights are confident, and invaluable...Marlowe emerges from this up-to-the-minute essay as a complex figure.' - Michael Caines, The Times Literary Supplement