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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE AT 450

To the Marlowe Society of America, a cadre of dedicated scholars, who have devoted long hours to exploring all facets of Christopher Marlowe, his dramas, and his poetry, and to sharing generously their insights with fellow Early Modern scholars. The organization has provided inspiration to many scholars over the years and, no doubt, will continue to do so.

Edited by

SARA MUNSON DEATS
University of South Florida, USA

ROBERT A. LOGAN
University of Hartford, USA

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

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Christopher Marlowe at 450 / edited by Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-0943-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4724-0944-7 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4724-0945-4 (epub) 1. Marlowe, Christopher, 15641593Criticism and interpretation. 2. Marlowe, Christopher, 15641593Stage history. I. Deats, Sara Munson. II. Logan, Robert A., 1935

PR2673.C57 2015

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2014035206

ISBN 9781472409430 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315571959 (ebk)

Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan

Ruth Lunney

Tom Rutter

Sara Munson Deats

Stephen J. Lynch

Robert A. Logan

Leah S. Marcus

Patrick Cheney

M.L. Stapleton

Richard Wilson

David Bevington

Christopher Matusiak

David McInnis

Constance Brown Kuriyama

David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. His books include From Mankind to Marlowe (1962), Tudor Drama and Politics (1968), Action Is Eloquence (1985), Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience (2005), This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now (2007), Shakespeares Ideas (2008), Shakespeare and Biography (2010), and Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages (2011). He is the editor of Medieval Drama (1975), The Bantam Shakespeare, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare (6th edition, 2008). He is the senior editor of the Revels Student Editions and a senior editor of the Revels Plays, The Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama (2002), and The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (7 vols, 2012).

Patrick Cheney is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State. His two monographs on Marlowe, Marlowes Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood (Toronto, 1997) and Marlowes Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime (Palgrave, 2009), have received the Roma Gill Award from the Marlowe Society of America. Cheney is also editor of The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge, 2004) and co-editor of The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe (Oxford, 2006). Currently, he is working on English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime: Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare, under contract with Cambridge.

Sara Munson Deats is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at the University of South Florida. A former President of the Marlowe Society of America, she has published over fifty articles and book chapters on Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Early Modern Drama. She has also authored or edited ten books. Her books include a feminist study of Marlowe, Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (1997), for which she received the Roma Gill Prize from the Marlowe Society of America; two earlier collections of essays co-edited with Robert A. Logan, Marlowes Empery: Expanding His Critical Contexts (2002) and Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Fresh Cultural Contexts (2008); Antony and Cleopatra: New Critical Essays (2005); Doctor Faustus: A Critical Guide (2010); and five collections of essays, co-edited with Lagretta Lenker, relating literature to social issues such as youth suicide, spouse abuse, gender in academe, aging, and war. She is currently completing a book titled The Faust Myth on Stage and Screen.

Constance Brown Kuriyama is Professor Emerita of English at Texas Tech University. Her publications include Hammer or Anvil: Psychological Patterns in Christopher Marlowes Plays and Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life. She is co-editor of A Poet and a Filthy Play-Maker: New Essays on Christopher Marlowe, and the editor and translator of The Intimate Charlie Chaplin.

Robert A. Logan is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Hartford. A former president of the Marlowe Society of America, he has written numerous articles and book chapters on Marlowe and Shakespeare, served as guest editor, published several reviews, and co-edited with Sara Munson Deats two previous collections of essays: Marlowes Empery: Expanding His Critical Contexts (2002) and Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Fresh Cultural Contexts (2008). In 2007, he published a critical work, Shakespeares Marlowe: The Influence of Christopher Marlowe on Shakespeares Artistry, which won the Roma Gill Prize for the best new work in Marlowe studies. He was the general editor for a series of six volumes on the University Wits (Greene, Lodge, Lyly, Marlowe, Nashe, Peele), and edited/authored the volume on Marlowe (2011). He has also edited and contributed a chapter to a collection of new essays, The Jew of Malta: A Critical Guide (2013). At present, he is completing a critical work entitled: Measuring Up: Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, and Paradigms of Fame.

Ruth Lunney is Conjoint Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia. Her publications include Marlowe and the Popular Tradition: Innovation in the English Drama before 1595 (2002; paperback 2011) and John Lyly (2011), the first-ever collection of essays on Lylys works, as well as essays on Marlowe, Lyly, and Shakespeare, and book and theater reviews. She was awarded the 20032004 Roma Gill Prize for Marlowe studies and the 1996 Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize.