Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade

by Kirk Melnikoff
Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade
Author: Kirk Melnikoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108642063
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Presenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe's complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe's work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful chapters consider Marlowe's deliberate engagements with the stage and print culture, the agents and methods involved in the transmission of his work, and his cultural reception in the light of repertory and print evidence. With contributions from major international scholars, the volume considers all of Marlowe's oeuvre, offering illuminating approaches to his extended animation in theatre and print, from the putative theatrical debut of Tamburlaine in 1587 to the most current editions of his work.

Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade

by Kirk Melnikoff
Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade
Author: Kirk Melnikoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2022-06-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781107566170
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Presenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe's complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe's work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful chapters consider Marlowe's deliberate engagements with the stage and print culture, the agents and methods involved in the transmission of his work, and his cultural reception in the light of repertory and print evidence. With contributions from major international scholars, the volume considers all of Marlowe's oeuvre, offering illuminating approaches to his extended animation in theatre and print, from the putative theatrical debut of Tamburlaine in 1587 to the most current editions of his work.

Christopher Marlowe in Context

by Emily C. Bartels
Christopher Marlowe in Context
Author: Emily C. Bartels
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2013-07-11
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107016258
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A contemporary of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe was one of the most influential early modern dramatists, whose life and mysterious death have long been the subject of critical and popular speculation. This collection sets Marlowe's plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural influence. Chapters by leading international scholars discuss both his major and lesser-known works. Divided into three sections, 'Marlowe's works', 'Marlowe's world', and 'Marlowe's reception', the book ranges from Marlowe's relationship with his own audience through to adaptations of his plays for modern cinema. Other contexts for Marlowe include history and politics, religion and science. Discussions of Marlowe's critics and Marlowe's appeal today, in performance, literature and biography, show how and why his works continue to resonate; and a comprehensive further reading list provides helpful suggestions for those who want to find out more.

Some Other Note

by Ross W. Duffin
Some Other Note
Author: Ross W. Duffin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 761
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0190856602
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English comedy from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century abounds in song lyrics, but most of the original tunes were thought to have been lost--until now. By deducing that playwrights borrowed melodies from songs they already knew, Ross W. Duffin has used the existing English repertory of songs, both popular and composed, to reconstruct hundreds of songs from more than a hundred plays and other stage entertainments. Thanks to Duffin's incredible breakthrough, these plays have been rendered performable with period music for the first time in five hundred years. Some Other Note not only brings these songs back from the dead, but tells a thrilling tale of the investigations that unraveled these centuries-old mysteries [Publisher description]

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe

by Patrick Cheney
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe
Author: Patrick Cheney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2004-07-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521527347
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The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and of Ovidian narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such masterpieces of tragedy and lyric as Doctor Faustus and 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'. Sixteen leading scholars provide accessible and authoritative chapters on Marlowe's life, texts, style, politics, religion, and classicism. The volume also considers his literary and patronage relationships and his representations of sexuality and gender and of geography and identity; his presence in modern film and theatre; and finally his influence on subsequent writers. The Companion includes a chronology of Marlowe's life, a note on reference works, and a reading list for each chapter.

Shakespeare's Stage Traffic

by Janet Clare
Shakespeare's Stage Traffic
Author: Janet Clare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107040035
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Contesting the notion of Shakespeare as originator, Clare demonstrates how Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.

Renaissance Paratexts

by Helen Smith
Renaissance Paratexts
Author: Helen Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-05-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139495844
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In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.

Shakespeare and the Book Trade

by Lukas Erne
Shakespeare and the Book Trade
Author: Lukas Erne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107354552
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Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare's printed plays and poems in his own time and to argue that their popularity in the book trade has been greatly underestimated. Erne uses evidence from Shakespeare's publishers and the printed works to show that in the final years of the sixteenth century and the early part of the seventeenth century, 'Shakespeare' became a name from which money could be made, a book trade commodity in which publishers had significant investments and an author who was bought, read, excerpted and collected on a surprising scale. Erne argues that Shakespeare, far from indifferent to his popularity in print, was an interested and complicit witness to his rise as a print-published author. Thanks to the book trade, Shakespeare's authorial ambition started to become bibliographic reality during his lifetime.