Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession : : Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood / / Patrick Cheney.
Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession presents the first comprehensive reading of the Marlowe canon in over a generation. The occasion for Patrick Cheney's rereading is a primary discovery: Marlowe organized his canon around an "Ovidian" career model, or cursus, which turns from amato...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Texts and Abbreviations
- Introduction: Marlowe's Ovidian Career, Spenser, and the Writing of Counter-Nationhood
- Part I: Sea-Bank Myrtle Sprays: Amatory Poetry
- 1. Ovid's Counter-Virgilian Cursus in the Amores
- 2. Marlowe's New Renaissance Ovid: 'Area maior' in Ovid's Elegies
- 3. Career Rivalry, Counter-Nationhood, and Philomela in 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'
- Part II: Sceptres and High Buskins: Tragedy
- 4. Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Coining of '"Eliza"'
- 5. 'Thondring words of threate': Spenser in Tamburlaine, Parts i and 2
- 6. Machiavelli and the Play of Policy in The Jew of Malta
- 7. 'Italian masques by night': Machiavellian Policy and Ovidian Play in Edward II
- 8. 'Actors in this massacre': The Massacre at Paris and the Orphic Guise of Metatheatre
- 9. Un-script(ur)ing Christian Tragedy: Ovidian Love, Magic, and Glory in Doctor Faustus
- Part III: Trumpets and Drums: Epic
- 10. Counter-Epic of Empire: Lucan's First Book
- 11. Marlowe, Chapman, and the Rewriting of Spenser's England in Hero and Leander
- Afterword: Counterfeiting the Profession
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index