Christopher Marlowe : a Renaissance life /
Kuriyama, Constance Brown, 1942-
Christopher Marlowe : a Renaissance life / Constance Brown Kuriyama. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2002. - xxi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index.
A Canterbury tale -- Fetching gentry from the university -- Commencing the M.A.: acquaintances, friends, and connections -- A poet's life in London -- Lord Strange and Thomas Walsingham -- Fortune turns base -- A trim reckoning -- The dead shepherd -- Marlowe lost and found.
"Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) is portrayed in most accounts of his life by biographers and critics as a mysterious and sensational action figure, a hapless pawn of circumstance, or a pseudonymous cipher. Constance Brown Kuriyama's biography reconstructs the eventful life of a radically innovative playwright who flourished briefly and died violently more than four hundred years ago, yet persists in the romantic imagination even today." "Many discoveries about Marlowe's life have emerged over the past hundred years. The author here supplements these findings with new material, placing the dramatist and poet more precisely in the historical milieu. Kuriyama interprets Marlowe's acts of violence - inexplicable though they may seem - as logical consequences of the circumstances he faced. Experience and temperament both accounted for the characteristically brash way he moved through the world."--Jacket.
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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
Marlowe, Christopher.
1500 - 1700
Dramatists, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
Dramatists, English--Early modern.
Biography.
PR 2673 .K87 2002
Christopher Marlowe : a Renaissance life / Constance Brown Kuriyama. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2002. - xxi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index.
A Canterbury tale -- Fetching gentry from the university -- Commencing the M.A.: acquaintances, friends, and connections -- A poet's life in London -- Lord Strange and Thomas Walsingham -- Fortune turns base -- A trim reckoning -- The dead shepherd -- Marlowe lost and found.
"Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) is portrayed in most accounts of his life by biographers and critics as a mysterious and sensational action figure, a hapless pawn of circumstance, or a pseudonymous cipher. Constance Brown Kuriyama's biography reconstructs the eventful life of a radically innovative playwright who flourished briefly and died violently more than four hundred years ago, yet persists in the romantic imagination even today." "Many discoveries about Marlowe's life have emerged over the past hundred years. The author here supplements these findings with new material, placing the dramatist and poet more precisely in the historical milieu. Kuriyama interprets Marlowe's acts of violence - inexplicable though they may seem - as logical consequences of the circumstances he faced. Experience and temperament both accounted for the characteristically brash way he moved through the world."--Jacket.
0801439787 9780801439780 9780801476884 0801476887
2001007519
GBA2X9078 bnb
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
Marlowe, Christopher.
1500 - 1700
Dramatists, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
Dramatists, English--Early modern.
Biography.
PR 2673 .K87 2002