Cheney argues that Marlowe organizes his canon around an "Ovidian" career model, or cursus, which turns from amatory poetry to tragedy to epic. The first comprehensive reading of the Marlowe canon in over a generation.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 822/.3
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- C43 1997eb
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 10
- TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS 12
- Introduction: Marlowe's Ovidian Career, Spenser, and the Writing of Counter-Nationhood 16
- Part I: Sea-Bank Myrtle Sprays: Amatory Poetry 42
- 1 Ovid's Counter-Virgilian Cursus in the Amores 44
- 2 Marlowe's New Renaissance Ovid: 'Area maior' in Ovid's Elegies 62
- 3 Career Rivalry, Counter-Nationhood, and Philomela in 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' 81
- Part II: Sceptres and High Buskins: Tragedy 102
- 4 Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Coining of '"Eliza"' 112
- 5 'Thondring words of threate': Spenser in Tamburlaine, Parts 1and 2 128
- 6 Machiavelli and the Play of Policy in The Jew of Malta 149
- 7 'Italian masques by night': Machiavellian Policy and Ovidian Play in Edward II 170
- 8 'Actors in this massacre': The Massacre at Paris and the Orphic Guise of Metatheatre 188
- 9 Un-script(ur)ing Christian Tragedy: Ovidian Love, Magic, and Glory in Doctor Faustus 203
- Part III: Trumpets and Drums: Epic 234
- 10 Counter-Epic of Empire: Lucan's First Book 240
- 11 Marlowe, Chapman, and the Rewriting of Spenser's England in Hero and Leander 251
- Afterword: Counterfeiting the Profession 272
- NOTES 278
- WORKS CITED 358
- INDEX 392
- A 392
- B 393
- C 395
- D 396
- E 397
- F 398
- G 399
- H 400
- I 402
- J 402
- K 402
- L 403
- M 404
- N 406
- O 407
- P 408
- Q 409
- R 409
- S 410
- T 413
- U 414
- V 414
- W 414
- Y 415
- Z 415
