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Christopher Marlowe: Merlin's Prophet - Couverture rigide

Weil, Judith

 
9780521215541: Christopher Marlowe: Merlin's Prophet
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521215544 ISBN 13 : 9780521215541
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1977

Synopsis

Mrs Weil challenges two widely accepted views of Marlowe. He is not the poet and dramatist of heroic energy, 'daring God out of heaven' with his outrageous heroes. Nor is he a dogmatic moralist. Instead, he belongs to Merlin's race, as his contemporary Robert Greene suggested. An ironic writer of riddling plays, he does not endorse his characters, but cunningly manipulates our responses to them. Like Erasmus or Rabelais, he uses the knowledge of his audience in a variety of surprising ways. This approach is carefully argued for each play. The reader – perhaps initially sceptical – will find himself confronted with many features of the drama and the poetry not adequately accounted for in the conventional views, but persuasively explained here. The book may well permanently modify our attitudes toward Marlowe.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Mrs Weil challenges two widely accepted views of Marlowe. He is not the poet and dramatist of heroic energy, 'daring God out of heaven' with his outrageous heroes. Nor is he a dogmatic moralist. Instead, he belongs to Merlin's race, as his contemporary Robert Greene suggested. An ironic writer of riddling plays, he does not endorse his characters, but cunningly manipulates our responses to them. Like Erasmus or Rabelais, he uses the knowledge of his audience in a variety of surprising ways. This approach is carefully argued for each play. The reader – perhaps initially sceptical – will find himself confronted with many features of the drama and the poetry not adequately accounted for in the conventional views, but persuasively explained here. The book may well permanently modify our attitudes toward Marlowe.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1977
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521215544
ISBN 13 
9780521215541
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
226
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Avery
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