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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The humanist (re)turn : reclaiming the self in literature / by Bryson, Michael, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Reclaiming the Self: Transcending Postmodern Fragmentation -- Transcendence Through Participation and Action in the Bhagavad Gita -- The Binding of Criseyde and Troilus: Success and Failure in the Attempt to Transcend the "love of kynde" in Troilus and Criseyde -- Success and Failure of Transcendence in Christopher Marlowe's Dido Queene of Carthage and William Shakespeare's Othello -- Transcendence as Disobedience and Choice in Clarissa, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre -- Transcendence as Participation: the Union of Masculine and Feminine in Goethe's Faust -- Reclaiming A Solemn Bequest: Transcending Fragmentation, Recovering Trust, and Returning from Exile in Silas Marner -- Transcendence Through Transgression and Kenosis: Sin as Salvation and Self-Emptying in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood.…”

Telltale women : chronicling gender in early modern historiography / by Meyer, Allison Machlis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : early modern royal women and the historical record -- "A very prey to time" : rewriting Elizabeths in Tudor historiography and William Shakespeare's Richard III -- "Your hope is gone" : narrowing the nation in the true tragedy of Richard III and Thomas Heywood's Edward IV -- From a "noble lady" to an "unnatural queen" : imagining Queen Isabel in chronicle history and Christopher Marlowe's Edward II -- "So masculine a stile" : gender and genre in Elizabeth Cary's The history of Edward II -- "You must be king of me" : queens and rivals in Francis Bacon's The history of King Henry VII and John Ford's Perkin Warbeck.…”
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Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

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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. …”

Shakespeare and his contemporaries / by Nicholl, Charles

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Biographies -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) -- Ben Jonson (1572-1637) -- Francis Beaumonth (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625) -- Actors -- The Sidney Circle -- Edmund Spenser (c.1552-99) -- George Chapman (c.1559-1634) -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- John Donne (1572-1631) -- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604) -- Sir John Harington (1562-1612) -- Maids of Honour -- Pamphleteers -- Travel Writers -- Scientists -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Sir Walter Ralegh (c.1554-1618) -- Patrons.…”

Shakespeare and the drama of his time / by Wiggins, Martin

A most excellent ditty of the louers promises to his beloued. : To a sweet new tune called, Liue with me and be my loue.

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The first and second part of the troublesome raigne of Iohn King of England : With the discouerie of King Richard Cordelions base sonne (vulgarly named, the bastard Fawconbridge:)...

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All Ouids elegies : 3. bookes. By C.M. Epigrams by I.D. by Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D, Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626

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Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries /

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's mythological feuilletage: a methodological induction / Yves Peyré -- The non-Ovidian Elizabethan epyllion: Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Barnfield / Tania Demetriou -- 'This realm is an empire': tales of origins in medieval and early modern France and England / Dominique Goy-Blanquet -- Trojan shadows in Shakespeare's King John / Janice Valls-Russell -- Venetian Jasons, parti-coloured lambs and a tainted wether: Ovine tropes and the Golden Fleece in The Merchant of Venice / Atsuhiko Hirota -- Fifty ways to kill your brother: Medea and the poetics of fratricide in early modern English literature / Katherine Heavey -- 'She, whom Jove transported into Crete': Europa, between consent and rape / Gaëlle Ginestet -- Subtle weavers, mythological interweavings and feminine political agency: Penelope and Arachne in early modern drama / Nathalie Rivère de Carles -- Multi-layered conversations in Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage / Agnès Lafont -- Burlesque or neoplatonic? …”
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The Shakespeare Claimants : a Critical Survey of the Four Principal Theories concerning the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays. by Gibson, H. N.

Table of Contents: “…The Case for Lord Derby; VI. The Case for Christopher Marlowe; VII. Parallelisms and the 'Promus'; VIII. …”
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Essays in memory of Barrett Wendell

Table of Contents: “…--The question of mediaevalism, by T.L. Riggs.--Christopher Marlowe--rationalist, by H.W. Herrington.--The development of the "vice," by R. …”

Ouid's elegies : three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D. by Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D, Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626

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Drama in English from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century : an anthology of plays with old spelling /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Drama of the Middle Ages -- Noah's flood (Chester cycle) -- Abraham and Isaac (Brome manuscript) -- The second shepherds (Wakefield/Towneley cycle) -- The crucifixion (York cycle) -- Everyman -- Drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries -- The shoemaker's holiday / Thomas Dekker -- The Jew of Malta / Christopher Marlowe -- Volpone / Ben Jonson -- The Duchess of Malfy / John Webster -- The knight of the burning pestle / Francis Beaumont -- Drama of the restoration and early eighteenth century -- All for love / John Dryden -- The plain dealer / William Wycherley -- The beaux' stratagem / George Farquhar -- The London merchant / George Lillo -- The beggar's opera / John Gay -- Drama of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The Shaughraun / Dion Boucicault -- The playboy of the Western world / John Synge -- St. …”
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Early modern intertextuality / by Carter, Sarah, 1978-

Tamburlaine the great : Who, from a Scythian shepheard, by his rare and wonderfull conquestes, became a most puissant and mightie monarch: and (for his tyrannie, and terrour in war... by Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593

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All Ouids elegies : 3. bookes. By C.M. Epigrams by I.D. by Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D, Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626

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