Christopher Marlowe

by Richard Wilson and Richard Wilson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582237076
• ISBN13: 9780582237070
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"