Marlowe: A Critical Study

This is a thorough critical study of Marlowe's entire output - plays, translations and poems - prefaced by a biographical chapter.

J. B. Steane (Author)

9780521096249, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 1970

392 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.5 kg

This is a thorough critical study of Marlowe's entire output - plays, translations and poems - prefaced by a biographical chapter. It is an attempt to provide the 'life and works' study for the general reader. Mr Steane takes the poetry as the centre of his interest; offering a literary judgement on Marlowe's art rather than further discussion of sources and background. He provides a balanced account of a great poetic dramatist, a writer of exceptional power whose poetry also reveals profound human flaws.

Preface to the paperback edition
Preface
Part I: 1. Marlowe's life: facts and theories
Part II. The Plays: 2. The Tragedie of Dido
3. Tamburlaine
4. Doctor Faustus
5. The Jew of Malta
6. Edward II
A note on 'The Massacre at Paris'
Part III. The Poems: 7. The First Book of Lucan
8. Ovid's Elegies
9. Hero and Leander
Part IV: 10. Conclusion
Appendices
An additional note on Edward II
Selected Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]