... particular attention to poetic treatments of the mortal soul in Lucretius, Marlowe, Milton, and Dryden. Duke University Press 2010 a Dead Souls and Modern Minds? Mortalism and the Early...

...Emma Katherine Atwood This essay responds to queer approaches to Edward II and instead explores the way Marlowe tests the limits of imaginative space by presenting challenging and untenable spaces with which his audience must engage. For example, when Edward II is asked to imagine Killingworth...

...Jay Zysk Situating Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus within the contexts of liturgical history and sacramental theology, this essay argues that the Eucharist provided an influential aesthetic resource for English dramatists in the wake of the Reformation. Drawing on Eucharistic theology, liturgical books...

... Jonathan Burton West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia “A friendly parle” Most readings of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays rely on the assumption that early modern...

... Atwood, Emma Katherine “All Places Are Alike”: Marlowe’s Edward II and English Spatial Imagination  49 – 70 Burns, E. Jane Magical Politics from Poitou to Armenia: Mélusine, Jean de Berry, and the Eastern Mediterranean  275 – 301 Busse, Ashley Denham “Quod me nutrit me destruit...

... ways of reading Beard's plots—as tragedy and as comedy—have partly to do with the sprawl and variety of his material. The story of Cassius, who killed himself with the very sword he had turned against Caesar, and the story of Marlowe, stabbed with his own dagger while brawling in the streets, belong...

... Titania's sexuality in order to steal the Indian child, squeezing the aphrodisiac of the love-in-idleness into her eyes, so that “the next thing then she waking looks upon . . . She shall pursue it with the soul of love.” Even Robin and the Clown in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus know what magic is best used...

... saw the purpose of his office) on a profoundly scriptural level, often dramatizing the act of biblical citation and interpretation on the stage.8 In studies of allusion in The Merchant of Ven- ice and Marlowe’s Jew of Malta, Barbara Lewalski and G. K. Hunter have shown the two playwrights...

..., 2015. xii, 259 pp.; color plates throughout. $60.00. [Catalogue of an exhibition at The Walters Art Museum, Balti- more, and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, in 2015 – 16.] Marlow, L. Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-­Century Iran, Volume 1: The “Nasīhat al-­mulūk” of Pseudo...

... the French by M. Wallace McDonald. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Pub- lishing, 2000. xv, 376 pp. $28.00. Downie, J. A., and J. T. Parnell, eds. Constructing Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiii, 232 pp.; 5 illus...

... is not as extreme as the literary Wittenbergians, teacher and student, Faustus and Hamlet. Both these figures also long for bodily dissolution and complete bodily disappearance. Thus Marlowe's Faustus implores “Mountains and hills” to “fall on me, / And hide me from the heavy wrath of heaven.” Failing that, he...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.3 / 2014 Semler, Liam E. Teaching Shakespeare and Marlowe: Learning versus the Sys- tem. Shakespeare Now! London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2013. x, 153 pp. Paper $22.95. Taylor, Gary, and John Lavagnino, eds. Thomas Middleton and Early Mod- ern Textual...

...: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxiv, 404 pp.; 6 maps. $70.00. Shepard, Alan. Marlowe’s Soldiers: Rhetorics of Masculinity in the Age of the Armada. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002. viii, 248 pp. $69.95. Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines 551 Verbruggen...

... of Charlemagne . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2023. xv, 363 pp., 4 illus., 5 maps. Hardcover, ebook. Marlow, Louise, ed. and trans. Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Political Advice . Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought...

.... A heightened demonstration of this confusion occurs in Christo- pher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus. Pinned between the resplendent iconography of Catholicism and the contained faith of Protestantism, the tragedy con- tains pieces of medieval visual language alongside assertions of the ultimate unknowability...

... in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999. 299 pp. $45.00. McAdam, Ian. The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe. Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated...

... more open historically to the influence of the Continental Renaissance in Britain than to that of the Peninsula. What registers in Kyd, in Marlowe, in Heywood, in Dekker, in James’s writing as cultural guilt for a fantasmatic and contradictory identification with and disavowal of what Spain...

... the merchants or pirates of contemporary English ventures in the East, as in Philip Massinger’s The Renegado (1624) and John Fletcher’s The Island Prin- cess (1621). Like a number of other plays, notably Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta (1594), Nathan Field, Philip Massinger, and John Fletcher’s The Knight...

..., Coriolanus , 1.7.76, in Norton Shakespeare , ed. Greenblatt, Cohen, Howard, and Maus. 16 This passage is itself an echo of Aeneas's description of Pyrrhus's killing of Priam in Dido, Queen of Carthage , 2.1.250–65; and see Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine , in The Complete Plays , ed. J. B. Steane...

... was available.] Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus: A Two-Text Edition (A-Text, 1604; B-Text, 1616), Sources and Contexts, Criticism . Second edition. Edited by David Scott Kastan and Matthew Hunter. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton, 2023. xix, 361 pp. Paperback. Morand-Métivier...