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Playing With Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19991001
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Playing With Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization, by Fred B. Tromly.

Since the 1952 publication of Harry Levin's The Overreacher, Marlowe scholars have viewed Icarus as the primary archetype of the Marlovian hero. In Playing With Desire Fred Tromly suggests that the myth of Tantalus also lies behind Marlowe's work in several important ways. Stage protagonists like Faustus, Tamburlaine, and Barabas are tormented by desires that are unattainable, minor characters like Bajazeth are slowly and spectacularly tortured, and Marlowe's audience members are led to believe that ...

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