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Paul Whitfield White, ed. Marlowe, History, and Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe.(Book Review)
From: Comparative Drama
Date: 20010922
Author:Cunningham, Karen
New York: AMS Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 257. $59.95.
Introducing this volume of essays, Paul Whitfield White observes a "remarkably consistent, if somewhat sensationalized" picture of Christopher Marlowe in English literary history--a picture encompassing his mighty blank verse and personal and social rebelliousness. It is as though, White notes, this Marlowe were constructed "almost by design [as] a fitting contrast to the perceived orthodoxy and quiet conformity of Shakespeare" (xi). This collection, culled from sessions at MLA in 1990 and 1993 and from the third International ...
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