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Shakespeare's Marlowe : the influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeare's artistry

Moving beyond traditional studies of sources and influence, this book analyzes the uncommonly powerful aesthetic bond between Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. It shows how the process of tracking Marlowe's influence itself prompts questions and reflections that illuminate the dramatists' connections.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Ashgate, Aldershot, England, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
251 pages ; 24 cm
9780754657637, 0754657639
228783473
Marlowe and Shakespeare : repositioning the question of sources and influence
Unfelt imaginations : influence and characterization in The massacre at Paris, Titus Andronicus, and Richard III
Hero and Leander and Venus and Adonis : artistic individuality and the ideology of containment
Edward II, Richard II, the will to play, and an aesthetic of ambiguity
For a tricksy word / defy the matter : the influence of The Jew of Malta on The merchant of Venice
Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays, Shakespeare's Henry V, and the primacy of an artistic consciousness
Making the haunt his : Dido, Queen of Carthage as a precursor to Antony and Cleopatra
Glutted with conceit : imprints of Doctor Faustus on Macbeth and The tempest
Conclusion : Marlovian incentives