Marlowe and Shakespeare: The Critical Rivalry
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1349952265 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 382 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Much more than a study of the anxiety of influence, Marlowe and Shakespeare outlines a map of collective reading that stands comparison with the works of the leading sociologists of art.” (Richard Wilson, Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Kingston University, UK) . “More than a biography, Robert Sawyer's book gives us a sweeping history of four centuries of the critical and theatrical reception of these two intertwined geniuses, both of them products of the sixteenth-century educational and religious revolution, who shared stages, printers, publishers, and the expanding international port city of London. Sawyer deftly charts the increasing interaction between literary and popular culture, and his questioning of the traditional organisation of the literary pantheon feeds into his vibrant contextuali
A section of Chapter 7 was awarded a Calvin Hoffman Prize in 2013.. Author of Victorian Appropriations of Shakespeare, he is also co-editor of Shakespeare and Appropriation, and Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare. Robert Sawyer is Professor of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University
The work concludes by showing how the most recent outbreak of Marlowe as Shakespeare’s ghostwriter accelerates due to a climate of conspiracy, including “belief echoes,” which presently permeate our cultural and critical discourse.. Focusing on specific examples from the last 400 years, the study begins with Robert Greene’s comments in 1592 and ends with the post-9/11 and 7/7 era.The study not only looks at literary critics and their assessments, but also at playwrights such as Aphra Behn, novelists such as Anthony Burgess, and late twentieth-century movie and theatre directors. Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry betwe