Christopher Marlowe

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Standard Name: Marlowe, Christopher

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Intertextuality and Influence Sybille Bedford
The third rejected novel was the story of a young man working at a tedious business job in London who loves art and travel and the good life, who falls in with a powerful and...
Intertextuality and Influence Aphra Behn
AB took her outline from an old play called Lusts Dominion; or, The Lascivious Queen, attributed to Christopher Marlowe . It is a play of extremes. The title character, a Moor or black man...
Intertextuality and Influence Anne Dowriche
Randall Martin wrote in 1999 that he hoped to provoke a critical re-evaluation of AD 's history. He noted her scholarly ambitions and argued that she influenced Marlowe 's handling of similar material, though compared...
Intertextuality and Influence Margiad Evans
It contains thirty-six poems, fourteen of which had been printed already.
Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Margiad Evans. Seren, 1998.
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Ballad of Mountain Vowr in this collection explores the nature of story preserved in a rural community's oral tradition.
Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen, and Margiad Evans. “Introduction”. The Old and the Young, Seren, 1998, pp. 7-17.
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The Passionate Refusal...
Intertextuality and Influence Gertrude Stein
Critic Shirley Neuman sees this opera as an important step towards the final version of Ida.GS 's Faustus (unlike Marlowe 's or Goethe 's) is tormented by the fact that he cannot go...
Intertextuality and Influence Aldous Huxley
The title comes from Marlowe : My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.
Huxley, Aldous. Antic Hay and The Gioconda Smile. Harper, 1957.
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Like Crome Yellow, this is a satiric dissection of...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Melvill
The collection opens with A Call to Come to Christ, which engages in sacred parody of Christopher Marlowe 's well-known Come Live With Me and Be My Love. Melvill imagines not a lover...
Publishing Michèle Roberts
She belonged to the Poetry Society at Oxford , contributed to the student magazine Isis, won a poetry prize from the teenage magazine Honey (for a female-student-voice answer to Christopher Marlowe 's The Passionate...
Textual Features Clemence Dane
Will Shakespeare is written in blank verse, but does not imitate Elizabethan language. Subtitled an invention, the play dramatises Shakespeare 's early career as a writer, focusing on his move from Stratford to London...
Textual Production Isabella Whitney
The title-page reads The Copy of a letter, lately written in meeter, by a yonge Gentilwoman: to her unconstant Lover. With an Admonition to al yong Gentilwomen, and to all other Mayds in general to...

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1255: A child later known as Hugh of Lincoln was...

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1255

A child later known as Hugh of Lincoln was found dead in that city, and his murder (and torture with other aggravating circumstances) was unjustly blamed on the Jewish community, against whom savage reprisals...

Probably summer 1587: Christopher Marlowe's two-part tragedy Tamburlaine...

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Probably summer 1587

Christopher Marlowe 's two-part tragedy Tamburlaine the Great was probably first produced. It was published in 1590.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

26 February 1592: Christopher Marlowe's tragedy The Famous...

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26 February 1592

Christopher Marlowe 's tragedy The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, his most cynical play, was performed at the Rose Theatre in London.
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.
Nicholl, Charles. “Scribblers and Assassins”. London Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2002, pp. 30-3.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

7 July 1593: Christopher Marlowe's tragedy Edward II was...

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7 July 1593

Christopher Marlowe 's tragedy Edward II was posthumously entered in the Stationers' Register .
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

28 September 1593: Christopher Marlowe's poem Hero and Leander...

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28 September 1593

Christopher Marlowe 's poem Hero and Leander was posthumously entered in the Stationers' Register .
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

: William Jaggard published The Passionate...

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Summer 1599

William Jaggard published The Passionate Pilgrime, a pirated miscellany including poetry by Marlowe , Shakespeare , and others; the title-page ascription to Shakespeare is unjustified.
Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
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1604: Christopher Marlowe's The Tragicall History...

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1604

Christopher Marlowe 's The Tragicall History of D. Faustus was posthumously published, though this edition may not have been the first.
Marlowe, Christopher. “Introduction”. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, edited by Michael Keefer, Broadview, 1991, p. xi - xcii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Texts

Marlowe, Christopher. “Introduction”. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, edited by Michael Keefer, Broadview, 1991, p. xi - xcii.
Marlowe, Christopher. Tamburlaine the Great. Richard Jones, 1590.
Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. Thomas Bushell, 1604.