Themes and conventions of Elizabethan tragedy / by Bradbrook, M. C. 1909-1993

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Writing and society : literacy, print, and politics in Britain, 1590-1660 / by Wheale, Nigel

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Drama and the succession to the crown, 1561-1633 / by Hopkins, Lisa, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Christopher Marlowe and the succession to the English crown -- Romans and fairies -- Robin Hood and the king's two bodies -- Female transmission, female taint -- Antonios and stewards -- One king, two kingdoms? …”
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Contemporaries of Shakespeare. by Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, by E. Gosse.--Christopher Marlowe in relation to Greene, Peele, and Lodge.…”

The time is out of joint : skepticism in Shakespeare's England / by Bertram, Benjamin, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"The spirit of blindness and error dooth seduce them" : the skepticism of Reginald Scott -- "The mayster of all essentiall and true knowledge" : Thomas Harriot in the New World -- "Religion hides many things from suspicion" : Christopher Marlowe's skepticism -- "And that's true too" : skepticism in King Lear and Timon of Athens.…”

Prologues to Shakespeare's theatre : performance and liminality in early modern drama / by Bruster, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…The Elizabethan prologue : text, actor, performance -- Prologue as threshold and usher -- Authority and authorization in the pre-Shakespearean prologue -- Frivolous jestures versus matter of worth : Christopher Marlowe -- Kingly harp and iron pen in the playhouse : George Peele -- From hodge-podge to scene individable : John Lyly -- Henry V and the signs of power : William Shakespeare.…”
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The Routledge anthology of Renaissance drama /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Edward II / Christopher Marlowe -- A woman killed with kindness / Thomas Heywood -- The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry / Elizabeth Cary -- The masque of blackness / Ben Jonson -- The knight of the burning pestle / Francis Beaumont -- Epicoene, or, The silent woman / Ben Jonson -- The roaring girl / Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker -- The changeling / Robert Middleton and William Rowley -- 'Tis pity she's a whore / John Ford.…”

Martyrs and players in early modern England : tragedy, religion and violence on stage / by Anderson, David K., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Tragedy and Religious Violence in Early Modern England; 1 Violence against the Sacred: Martyrdom and the Doctrine of the Persecuted Church; 2 The Tragedy of Gravity: William Shakespeare's King Lear; 3 Tragic Participation: John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; 4 Tragic Complicity: Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; 5 Tragic Ambivalence: John Milton's Samson Agonistes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The Routledge anthology of Renaissance drama /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Edward II / Christopher Marlowe -- A woman killed with kindness / Thomas Heywood -- The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry / Elizabeth Cary -- The masque of blackness / Ben Jonson -- The knight of the burning pestle / Francis Beaumont -- Epicoene, or, The silent woman / Ben Jonson -- The roaring girl / Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker -- The changeling / Robert Middleton and William Rowley -- 'Tis pity she's a whore / John Ford.…”
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A most excellent ditty of the louers promises to his beloued : To a sweet new tune called, Liue with me and be my loue. by Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593, Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618

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Staging the Renaissance : reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama /

Table of Contents: “…Civic rites, city sites -- Playing and power -- Censorship and interpretation -- Theater of the idols -- Boy actors, female roles, and Elizabethan eroticism -- Women as spectators, spectacles, and paying customers -- Sodomy and society : the cas of Christopher Marlowe -- What is a text? -- "The Very names of the persons" : editing and the invention of dramatick character -- "Tragedies naturally performed" : the SPANISH TRAGEDY (c. 1587) -- Will to absolute play : the JEW OF MALTA (c. 1589) -- Subversion through transgression : DOCTOR FAUSTUS (c. 1592) -- Alice Arden's crime : ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM (c. 1590) -- Workshop and/as playhouse : the SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY (1599) -- Ben Jonson and the publicke riot : BEN JONSON'S COMEDIES -- City talk : EPICOENE (1609) -- Pastimes and the purging of theater : BARTHOLOMEW FAIR (1614) -- Reading the body and the Jacobean theater of consumption : the REVENGER'S TRAGEDY (1606) -- Logic of the transvestite : the ROARING GIRL (1608) -- Spectre of resistance : the TRAGEDY OF MARIAM (1613) -- Italians and others : the WHITE DEVIL (1612).…”

Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England : literary representations in historical context /

Table of Contents: “…Bredbeck -- Body, costume, and desire in Christopher Marlowe / Gregory Woods -- Verse letters to T.W. from John Donne: "By you my love is sent" / George Klawitter -- Lesbian erotics: The utopian trope of Donne's "Sapho to Philaenis" / Janel Mueller -- Sodomy and kingcraft in Urania and Antony and Cleopatra / Ellis Hanson -- Not since Sappho: The erotic in poems of Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn / Arlene Stiebel -- Seeing sodomy: Fanny Hill's blinding vision / Kevin Kopelson -- The sodomitical muse: Fanny Hill and the rhetoric of crossdressing / Donald H. …”

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Early modern intertextuality / by Carter, Sarah, 1978-

Against Reproduction : Where Renaissance Poems Come From / by Guy-Bray, Stephen

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Machiavellian encounters in Tudor and Stuart England : literary and political influences from the reformation to the restoration /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Introducing Machiavelli in Tudor and Stuart England; 1 Reginald Pole and the Reception ofthe Principe in Henrician England; 2 Stolen Words to Train a Boy King:William Thomas Translates Machiavelli; 3 Machiavelli in The Quintesence of Witand his English Military Readers; 4 Sir Walter Raleigh's Machiavelli; 5 Machiavellianism in ChristopherMarlowe's The Jew of Malta; 6 When Pretence Rules over Essence: Shakespeare's Bastard in King John; 7 Henry V and the Just War: Shakespeare, Gentili and Machiavelli.…”
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Mastering the revels : the regulation and censorship of early modern drama / by Dutton, Richard, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Tilney, Patronage, and Profit, 1579-1589 -- Edmund Tilney's Special Commission, 1581 -- Literary Skills of Masters of the Revels -- Tilney at Work -- John Lyly -- Robert Wilson -- The Sponsorship of Plays by People of Consequence -- 3. 1586-1592: Decrees for Orders in Printing; 'Martin Marprelate'; Tilney Reappears; Christopher Marlowe -- Decrees for Orders in Printing, 1586 -- 'Martin Marprelate' -- Tilney's Limited Authority -- Christopher Marlowe -- 4. 1592-1602: The Theatrical World Reassembles; Tilney's Position Consolidated -- 1592-1598 -- Falstaff -- The Isle of Dogs -- The 'Duopoly' Acknowledged -- Tilney's Authority and Income, with Some Licensing Issues -- Tilney's Censorship: (a) Richard II -- Tilney's Censorship: (b) The Book of Sir Thomas More -- Late Elizabethan Jonson -- 5a. …”
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Prayer and performance in early modern English literature : gesture, word, and devotion /

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Martyrs and players in early modern England : tragedy, religion and violence on stage / by Anderson, David K., 1978-

Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men : reading across repertories on the London stage, 1594-1600 / by Rutter, Tom

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