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Comparison and Contrast in the Major Tragic Protagonists of Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe will live forever as the author of four plays, Tamburlaine. Doctor Faustus. The Jew of Malta, and Edward the Second. |To study the likenesses and differences of Marlowe’s tragic protagonists in three of these is the purpose of this thesis. To date there seems to have been no …
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Memorial Reconstructions: Christopher Marlowe, Cultural Memory, and the Royal Shakespeare Company
"Chapter One traces the creation of the Marlowe myth through the critical record and identifies four persistent aspects of that myth: when compared to Shakespeare, Marlowe is repeatedly figured as an atheist, bohemian, ""queer,"" and foreign figure. Chapter Two explores the permanent, physical …
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"""The meaning has a meaning"": A critical reading of the major plays of Christopher Marlowe"
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The Comparison and Contrast of the Historical Tamerlane and Marlowe‘s Dramatic Tamburlaine
… and Contrast of the Historical Tamerlane and Marlowe's Dramatic Tamburlaine." The thesis problem involved in this study is, "How did Christopher Marlowe create the tragic hero in his drama? How did he raise Tamburlaine from the world of historical reality to the universal realm of artistic …
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"The alien within": Residual Catholicism and the emerging national identity of post-Reformation England
… canonical writers: specifically Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.</p>
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A Study of the Theme of Cruelty in Four Renaissance Dramas
… theme in four Renaissance dramas.1 Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and John Webster represent the beginning, middle, and close of the age. This study examines both mental suffering and physical torture, and it has been fascinating to learn that Marlowe and Shakespeare …
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George Herbert's restlessness: Spiritual fulfillment or spiritual estrangement?
… seventeenth centuries including George Herbert, Christopher Marlowe, and John Milton. Herbert's perspective alone differs from the others; George Herbert's perspective is framed in "The Pulley." His view that restlessness is a divine treasure is unique to him and is manifested in various avenues. …
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… humanist texts, and the dramatic work of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and William Shakespeare to chart the variety of theatrical response to early modern ideas of “humanity” in the wake of humanist education’s cultural ascent. As London’s early commercial playwrights, …
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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
… Ovidian elegy love tradition as practiced by Christopher Marlowe and John Donne. Then I will discuss Petrarch and the serious sonnet sequence tradition, the influence of which is evident in the sonnet sequences of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. Next, since both the afore-mentioned love …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
… dramatists such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe are considered as part of the discussion, emphasis is primarily given to those of less canonical playwrights, including George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd, Gervase Markham, John Marston, Philip Massinger, …
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"Falling to a devilish exercise": Magic and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage
… audience. Robert Greene, Anthony Munday, and Christopher Marlowe all drew upon characters from popular chapbook romances and dramatized them in accordance with audience expectations, demonizing them when their aims became selfish or esoteric and applauding them when the magic was used to …
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Rumor, gender, and authority in English Renaissance drama
<p>The dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson register a certain type of male character who is capable of discerning listening, an action that becomes an agent of specific masculine authority and identity. However, rumor's inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy …
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Impossible Heroes: Heroism and Political Experience in Early Modern England
… Heroes focuses on four writers--Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, and William Shakespeare--who deploy heroism to craft a different political fantasy. All these writers worked during the final years of Elizabeth's reign and the early years of James I's, anxious decades when …
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By hotter winds : the road to Samarkand
… the Great and Genghis Khan; the fantasy of Christopher Marlowe, Edgar Allan Poe, Wole Soyinka and James Elroy Flecker. We wanted to see the land and its people through their eyes, but also through our own. Our journey took us through a land of extremes: over the snowy peaks of the Hindu Kush …
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Supporting software reuse with configuration management and the World Wide Web
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671
Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671 is a study of the imaginative handling of suffering in Renaissance England literature. Beginning with the Reformed Protestant hermeneutics detailing the redemptive qualities of pain with John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs in 1570, the thesis goes on to …