Screen LibraryMarlowe and Shakespeare : The Critical Rivalry /
Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artistic production. Focusing on specific examples from the last 400 years, the study begins with Robert Gree...
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Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95227-4 |
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Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artistic production. Focusing on specific examples from the last 400 years, the study begins with Robert Green s comments in 1592 and ends with the post-9/11 and 7/7 era. The study not only looks at literary critics and their assessments, but also at playwrights such as Aphra Behn, novelists such as Anthony Burgess, and late twentieth-century movie and theatre directors. The work concludes by showing how |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XI, 382 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781349952274 |
| Index Number: | PN715 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1 Introduction: "The Rivals of My Watch" -- Chapter 2: "Locating the Earliest 'Critics'" -- Chapter 3: The Seventeenth Century: "Collaboration, Co-Authorship and the Death of the Author(s)" -- Chapter 4: The Long Eighteenth Century: "Limbs Torn Asunder, Borrowing the Bones, Identifying the Corpus" -- Chapter 5: The Nineteenth Century: "The Space(s) of the Critical Rivalry in London" -- Chapter 6: The Twentieth Century: "Formalization, Polarization, and Fictionalization" -- Chapter 7: The Twenty-First Century: "Trauma, Drama, and Conspiracy".-. |