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Author Cheney, Patrick, 1949-

Title Marlowe's counterfeit profession : Ovid, Spenser, counter-nationhood / Patrick Cheney
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 402 pages)
Contents ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""TEXTS AND ABBREVIATIONS""; ""Introduction: Marlowe's Ovidian Career, Spenser, and the Writing of Counter-Nationhood""; ""Part I: Sea-Bank Myrtle Sprays: Amatory Poetry""; ""1 Ovid's Counter-Virgilian Cursus in the Amores""; ""2 Marlowe's New Renaissance Ovid: 'Area maior' in Ovid's Elegies""; ""3 Career Rivalry, Counter-Nationhood, and Philomela in 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'""; ""Part II: Sceptres and High Buskins: Tragedy""; ""4 Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Coining of '""Eliza""'""
""5 'Thondring words of threate': Spenser in Tamburlaine, Parts 1and 2""""6 Machiavelli and the Play of Policy in The Jew of Malta""; ""7 'Italian masques by night': Machiavellian Policy and Ovidian Play in Edward II""; ""8 'Actors in this massacre': The Massacre at Paris and the Orphic Guise of Metatheatre""; ""9 Un-script(ur)ing Christian Tragedy: Ovidian Love, Magic, and Glory in Doctor Faustus""; ""Part III: Trumpets and Drums: Epic""; ""10 Counter-Epic of Empire: Lucan's First Book""; ""11 Marlowe, Chapman, and the Rewriting of Spenser's England in Hero and Leander""
""Afterword: Counterfeiting the Profession""""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Summary Cheney argues that Marlowe organizes his canon around an ""Ovidian"" career model, or cursus, which turns from amatory poetry to tragedy to epic. The first comprehensive reading of the Marlowe canon in over a generation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-378) and index
Subject Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Knowledge -- Literature
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge -- Literature
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Influence
Virgil -- Influence
SUBJECT Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 fast
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 fast
Virgil fast
Marlowe, Christopher 1564-1593 gnd
Ovidius Naso, Publius v43-17 gnd
Spenser, Edmund 1552-1599 gnd
Marlowe, Christopher. swd
Ovidius Naso, Publius. swd
Spenser, Edmund. swd
Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
National characteristics, British, in literature.
English literature -- Roman influences.
Authorship -- History -- 16th century
Nationalism in literature.
Authority in literature.
Liberty in literature.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature
Authority in literature
Authorship
English literature -- Roman influences
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Liberty in literature
National characteristics, British, in literature
Nationalism in literature
Auteurschap.
Nationalisme.
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442677067
1442677066