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Christopher Marlowe (Hardcover)
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Christopher Marlowe (Hardcover)
Series: Longman Critical Readers
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Christopher Marlowe has provoked some of the most radical criticism
of recent years. There is an elective affinity, it seems, between
this pre-modern dramatist and the post-modern critics whose best
work has been inspired by his plays. The reason suggested by this
collection of essays is that Marlowe shares the post-modern
preoccupation with the language of power - and the power of
language itself. As Richard Wilson shows in his introduction, it is
no accident that the founding essays of New Historicism were on
Marlowe; nor that current Queer Theorists focus so much on his
images of gender and homosexuality. Marlowe staged both the birth
of the modern author and the origin of modern sexual desire, and it
is this unique conjunction that makes his drama a key to
contemporary debates about the state and the self: from pornography
to gays in the military. Gay Studies, Cultural Materialism, New
Historicism and Reader Response Criticism are all represented in
this selection, which the introduction places in the light not only
of theorists like Althusser, Bataille and Bakhtin, but also of
artists and writers such as Jean Genet and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Many of the essays take off from Marlowe's extreme dramatisations
of arson, cruelty and aggression, suggesting why it is that the
thinker who has been most convincingly applied to his theatre is
the philosopher of punishment and pain, Michel Foucault. Others
explore the exclusiveness of this all-male universe, and reveal why
it remains so offensive and impenetrable to feminism. For what they
all make disturbingly clear is Marlowe's violent, untamed
difference from the cliches and correctness of normative society.
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