Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood

by Patrick Cheney

Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession presents the first comprehensive reading of the Marlowe canon in over a generation. The occasion for Patrick Cheney's rereading is a primary discovery: Marlowe organized his canon around an "Ovidian" career model, or cursus, which turns from amatory poetry to tragedy to epic. Ovid had advertised this cursus only in his inaugural poem, the Amores, where its purpose was to counter the Virgilian cursus of pastoral,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442612967
• ISBN13: 9781442612969
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher