M L Stapleton

Marlowe's Ovid

The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon

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Produktbeschreibung

The first book of its kind, Marlowe's Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies - Marlowe's translation of Ovid's Amores - and Marlowe's own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully considers Marlowe's Elegies in the context of his seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, Hero and Leander, and offers a diffe

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781032098999
• ISBN-10: 1032098996
• Artikelnr.: 62150140

Autorenporträt

M.L. Stapleton is Chapman Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. He has published books about Ovid, Seneca, Shakespeare, Spenser, Thomas Heywood, and Aphra Behn. He is editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare Julius Caesar, editor of Marlowe Studies: An Annual, and co-editor of Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page (Ashgate, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Small things with greater may be copulate": Marlowe the
Ovidian
1 Marlowe, Theatrical Speech, and the Epicenter of Sonnetdom: The Elegies
2 Tamburlaine and "the argument/Of every Epigram or Eligi"
3 Parts That No Eye Should Nehold: Dido and the Desultor
4 "It is no pain to speak men fair": The Desultor in Edward II
5 The Massacre at Paris: The Desultor as Playwright
6 "Loue alwaies makes those eloquent that haue it": Ovid in Hero and
Leander
7 Lente, Lente: Doctor Faustus and the Elegies
8 Ovid in The Jew of Malta
Coda