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        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2023

        Dido, Queen of Carthage

        by Christopher Marlowe

        by Ruth Lunney

        A city burns, and a queen burns for love: Dido, Queen of Carthage re-imagines one of the great legendary stories. The encounter between a wandering hero and an African queen engenders love and loss, eroticism and absurdity, childish simplicity and compelling eloquence. Written for children to perform in the 1580s, Dido is nonetheless a remarkable play, revolutionary in its approach to character, blank verse, and audiences. This volume is the first single-text scholarly edition in English. It is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and theatre practitioners. The edition features an accessible text, lightly punctuated for ease of reading and speaking. It incorporates new research into authorship (which indicates that Marlowe wrote the play), a detailed analysis of Dido's sources, and a survey of criticism; it assesses the evidence for early performances and provides extensive information about modern productions.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2024

        Shakespeare's borrowed feathers

        How early modern playwrights shaped the world's greatest writer

        by Darren Freebury-Jones

        A fascinating book exploring the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare's beloved plays. Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern playwrights who influenced him? Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers a fresh look at William Shakespeare and the community of playwrights that shaped his work. This compelling book argues that we need to see early modern drama as a communal enterprise, with playwrights borrowing from and adapting one another's work. From John Lyly's wit to the collaborative genius of John Fletcher, to Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's borrowed feathers offers fresh insights into Shakespeare's artistic development and shows us new ways of looking at the masterpieces that have enchanted audiences for centuries.

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        November 1997

        Frühstück mit Marlowe

        Rezepte und Geschichten

        by Göhre, Frank

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2011

        Marlowe and the Popular Tradition

        Innovation in the English drama before 1595

        by Ruth Lunney, Paul Edmondson, Martin White

        Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major plays in terms of staging and audience response, as well as providing a new account of English drama in these important but largely neglected years. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2021

        The Massacre at Paris

        By Christopher Marlowe

        by Martin White, Mathew R. Martin

        This volume presents a modernised edition of Christopher Marlowe's critical engagement with one of the bloodiest and traumatic episodes of the French Wars of Religion, the wholesale massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in August, 1572. Sensorily shocking and intellectually gripping, the play's dramatic action spans a tumultuous two decades in French history to unfold for its audience the tragic consequences of religious fanaticism, power politics, and dynastic rivalry. Comprehensively introduced and containing full commentary notes, this edition opens up this frequently neglected but historically significant and dramatically powerful play to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the history of the massacre, the play's treatment of its sources, the play's dramatisation of trauma, and the play's exploration of notions of religious toleration.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2020

        Conversations

        by Syrithe Pugh

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2021

        Mary and Philip

        The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain

        by Alexander Samson

        Mary I, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, was Queen of England from 1553 until her death in 1558. For much of this time she ruled alongside her husband, King Philip II of Spain, forming a co-monarchy that put England at the heart of early modern Europe. In this book, Alexander Samson presents a bold reassessment of Mary and Philip's reign, rescuing them from the neglect they have suffered at the hands of generations of historians. The co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II put England at the heart of early modern Europe. This positive reassessment of their joint reign counters a series of parochial, misogynist and anti-Catholic assumptions, correcting the many myths that have grown up around the marriage and explaining the reasons for its persistent marginalisation in the historiography of sixteenth-century England. Using new archival discoveries and original sources, the book argues for Mary as a great Catholic queen, while fleshing out Philip's important contributions as king of England.

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        March 2009

        Erleuchte, Dame, unsere Finsternis

        Songs Sonette Elegien. Zweisprachige Ausgabe

        by John Donne, Wolfgang Held, Wolfgang Held, Madeline Mary Duff

        Aus dem Schwarm der metaphysical poets ragt John Donne, Zeitgenosse von Shakespeare und Marlowe, als ihr Doyen und Meister hervor. Seine bildreichen und komplexen Gedichte, vor allem die zynisch-erotischen, geistvoll zugespitzten, enthusiastisch brutalen Liebesgedichte, wirken bis heute und gehören zum festen Bestand lyrischer Sprachkunst. Wolfgang Helds temperamentvolle Übertragung bietet in Metrum und Reim eine äußerste Annäherung an die Originale. Ein Vorwort und ein Essay erschließen die Entwicklung John Donnes vom elisabethanischen Kavalier zum todessüchtigen Dekan von Sankt Paul und bestimmen die Poetologie seiner Gedichte zwischen bildkräftiger Anschauung, intellektueller Kombinationskunst und leidenschaftlicher Ausdruckskraft.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2016

        The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England

        By George Peele

        by David Bevington, Charles Forker, Charles R. Forker, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich

        Forker's critical edition fills the need for a fully annotated, historically contextualised and modernised text of the most important Elizabethan chronicle play apart from Shakespeare and Marlowe's Edward II. Now attributed definitely to George Peele, this drama helped to establish a major theatrical genre, raising contemporary political and religious issues through the dramatisation of medieval history in a compelling and popular fashion. A major source for Shakespeare, it throws new light on the bard's adaptation of earlier drama and helps to illustrate his working methods. With the full introduction and generous notes this Revels Plays edition will be the first port of call for students and enthusiasts of Elizabethan and early modern drama. ;

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        April 1969

        Werke in vier Bänden

        3: Essays II. Literaturkritik

        by T. S. Eliot, Helmut Viebrock, Helene Ritzerfeld, Helmut Viebrock

        Die drei Stimmen der Dichtung. (Deutsch von Helene Ritzerfeld). Vers und Drama. (Deutsch von H.H. Schaeder). Dante. (Deutsch von H.H. Schaeder). Christopher Marlowe. (Deutsch von Hans Hennecke). Hamlet. (Deutsch von H.H. Schaeder). Shakespeares Verskunst. (Deutsch von Gerhard Hensel). Ben Jonson. (Deutsch von Ursula Clemen). Milton. (Deutsch von H.H. Schaeder). Johnson als Kritiker und Dichter. (Deutsch von Ellen Sckommodau). William Blake. (Deutsch von Hans Hennecke). Shelley und Keats. (Deutsch von Hans Hennecke). Baudelaire. (Deutsch von H.H. Schaeder). Yeats. (Deutsch von Hans Hennecke). Von Poe zu Valéry. (Deutsch von H.H. Schaeder). Ezra Pound: Seine Metrik und Dichtung. (Deutsch von Ulrich Keller). Ulysses, Ordnung und Mythos. (Deutsch von Armin P. und Mechthild Frank). Goethe der Weise. (Deutsch von Ursula Clemen).

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2012

        Galatea

        by John Lyly, David Bevington, Leah Scragg

        Devised as an entertainment for a Tudor monarch, Galatea might be seen, paradoxically, as a parable for our time. Inhabiting a world engaged in a process of change, the characters find themselves locked in a series of transgressive situations that speak directly to contemporary experience and twenty-first-century critical concerns. Same-sex relationships, shifts of authority, and the destabilization of meaning all lend the play a surprising modernity, making it at once the most accessible of Lyly's plays and the one most frequently performed today. Designed for the student reader, Leah Scragg's edition offers a range of perspectives on the work. An extensive introduction locates the play in the context of the Elizabethan court, opening a window onto a kind of drama very different from that of more familiar sixteenth-century writers, such as Marlowe and Shakespeare. The latter's indebtedness to the play is fully documented, while detailed critical and performance histories allow an insight into the work's susceptibility to reinterpretation. ;

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        September 2019

        Mit Dolchen sprechen

        Der literarische Hass-Effekt

        by Karl Heinz Bohrer

        Gerade in letzter Zeit hat der »Hass«-Begriff eine Karriere an öffentlicher Bedeutung hinter sich gebracht. In der publizistischen und sozialhistorischen Kritik an der in Deutschland und Europa verbreiteten Reaktion auf die Flüchtlingskrise rückte er gemeinsam mit Begriffen wie »Identität« und »Rassismus« in die vorderste Linie des Diskurses. Doch Karl Heinz Bohrers Studie in zwölf Kapiteln sucht im literarischen Hasseffekt etwas ganz anderes. Nicht um den Hass als die begleitende Emotion eines politisch-weltanschaulichen Programms geht es ihm, sondern einzig um den literarischen Ausdruckswert, um die Rolle des Hasses als eines Mediums exzessiv gesteigerter Poesie. Dabei zeigt sich eine privilegierte Rolle von Charakteren des Hasses und ihres Ausdrucksvermögens in der Literatur, an deren Vorbild sich die Expressivität literarischer Sprache selbst entwickelt. Bohrers Studien führen vom Beginn der Neuzeit, von Shakespeare, Kyd und Marlowe, über Milton, Swift, Kleist, Baudelaire, Strindberg und Céline bis in die Gegenwart: zu Sartre, Bernhard, Handke, Jelinek sowie Brinkmann und Goetz. Und zu Houellebecq, in dem die bösartige Affirmation des Hassenswerten, eine Zeitgenossenschaft ohne Hoffnung, kulminiert.

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