Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime

by P. Cheney

Overview

Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime is the first attempt to situate Marlowe's well-known iconoclastic dissidence within the historical context of Elizabethan republican thought, revealing Marlowe to be the literary pioneer of a new form of republican art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403933416
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/28/2008
Series:	Early Modern Literature in History
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

PATRICK CHENEY is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He specializes in English Renaissance literature, and has published monographs on Spenser, Marlowe and Shakespeare, as well as edited collections of essays on all three.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Note on Texts Introduction: Was Marlowe a Republican? Republican Representation: Marlowe, the Age of Elizabeth, and Lucan's First Book Authorship, Freedom, and Rapture in Marlowe's Ovidian Poems 'Defend his freedom 'gainst a monarchy': Empire and Liberty in Dido, Queen of Carthage and Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two Machevill's Republican Monarchy: Civil War in The Jew of Malta , The Massacre at Paris, and Edward II 'To make man live eternally': The Skeptical Sublime in Doctor Faustus Afterword: The Afterlife of Marlowe's Republican Authorship, Nashe to Milton Works Cited Index

Editorial Reviews

'A much-needed scholarly study, highlighting Marlowe's commitment to ideas of 'liberty'. Tracing the influence of republican thought from 1570s France, Netherlands and Scotland, it convincingly defines Marlowe's work as an expression of 'linguistic' and 'imaginative' republicanism, bringing his better-known texts into fruitful dialogue with unjustly overlooked works, such as the translation of Book One of Lucan's Pharsalia.' - Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield

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