...Nicholas F. Radel Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon . By Graham L. Hammill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. x + 219 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World. By Diana de Armas Wilson. Oxford: Oxford...

... Navarre” appeared in the December 2003 issue of MLQ . The Poet’s Toys: Christopher Marlowe and the Liberties of Erotic Elegy Heather James nd ’tis a pretty toy to be a poet”: this line, placed in the mouth of A an exceedingly weak king by an exceptionally strong poet, seems...

...Alan C. Dessen Judith Weil. Christopher Marlowe: Merlin's Prophet . Cambridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977. 219 pp. $15.95. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 REVIEWS Christopher Marlowe: Merlin’s Prophet. By JUDITH...

... follow Marlowe and Nashe’s model in Dido, Queen of Carthage by looking to Chaucer as the poetic authority for classical myth. Like Chaucer, both playwrights foreground the destruction left in empire’s wake. A Midsummer Night’s Dream imagines a retelling of Dido’s story that privileges her authority over...

...J. L. Styan Wilbur Sanders Cambridge: At the University Press, 1968. xi + 391 pp. $9.50. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 J. L. STYAN 483 The Dramatist and the Received Idea: Studies in the Plays of Marlowe Q...

... on the plays and poems. The two types of subject-matter are kept in separate chapters, which are intermingled in a roughly chronological arrangement. Of the two, the biographical sections seem clearly the stronger. Dr. Boas, to be sure, contributes no new factual information about Marlowe...

...T. M. Pearce Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 MARLOWE AND CASTIGLIONE By T. M. PEARCE Marlowe’s Tamburlaine has been acclaimed by nearly all critics as a culture symbol of the Renaissance. Yet the character has never been...

.... STEPHENORCEL University of California, Berkeley iMarlowe: A Critical Study. By J. B. STEANE.Cambridge: At the University Press, 1964. viii + 381 pp. $6.50. What do Marlowe’s plays really mean-as individual works of art and as clues to their author’s outlook on life? Until about thirty...

...Paul H. Kocher Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 CONTEMPORARY PAMPHLET BACKGROUNDS FOR MARLOWE’S THE MASSACRE AT PARIS By PAULH. KOCHER In contrast to the first six scenes of The Massacre at Puris,l which are known to have had...

...Paul H. Kocher Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 CONTEMPORARY PAhIPHLET BACKGROUNDS FOR MARLOWE’S THE MASSACRE AT PARIS. PART TWO By PAULH. KOCHER I11 Certainly the most intere4ng part...

... IN MARLOWE’S HERO AND LEANDER* By RICHARDNEUSE Few readers of Marlowe today will object to the proposition that for all its lightness of manner Hero and Leander is a poem which deals with problems that also seriously engaged Marlowe the dramatist. J. B...

...Robert E. Knoll Charles G. Masinton. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1972. x + 168 pp. $8.00. Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 REVIEWS Christopher Marlowe’s Tragic Vision: A Study in Damnation. By CHARLES G. MASINTON.Athens: Ohio...

..., and an index of passages cited from Paradise Lost. It is regrettable that the first index is so incomplete and in- accurate as to be of little use. THOMASB. STROUP The University of Florida Marlowe’s “Tanzburlaine.” By ROYW...

...G. P. Shannon AGAINST MAROT AS A SOURCE OF MARLOWE’S HERO AND LEANDER By G. P. SHANNON One who has to refer to the sources of Hero and Leander will imme- diately find, first, that Marlowe followed no one version closely and second...

...Kenneth A. Bruffee Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 THE LESSER NIGHTMARE MARLOW’S LIE IN HEART OF DARKNESS By KENNETHA. BRUFFEE Late in Conrad’s story Heart of Darkness, Marlow expresses the belief...

...Susan Richards Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 MARLOWE’S TAMBURLAINE II A DRAMA OF DEATH By SUSANRICHARDS In drama which treats a man who deals in death, death has a peculiar role of its own...

...Martin T. Williams Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE TEMPTATIONS IN MARLOWE’S HERO AND LEANDER By MARTINT WILLIAMS One episode in Marlowe’s partial redaction of Hero and Leander has perplexed, distressed...

...Leo Kirschbaum Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 SOME LIGHT ON THE JEW OF MALTA By LEOKIRSCHBAUM Some scholars hold that the text of The Jew of Malta which we have today is not the text which Marlowe...

... Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the English morality plays. If the morality elements in that play are only vestiges, then the traditional view of Faustus as the aspiring Marlovian hero, whose rise to power is (like that of Tamburlaine) more interesting than his fall, will hold. But if Faustus...

...Michael Quinn Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 THE FREEDOM OF TAMBURLAINE By MICHAELQUINN Robert Greene was presumably the first to describe Marlowe’s Tamburlaine as an atheist, but we can no longer be sure what he meant...