Christopher Marlowe and the Failure to Unify
| By: | Duxfield, Andrew, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781472439512 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472439536 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. In combination with the ambiguity of the plays, he suggests, this focus produces a tension that both heightens dramatic effect and facilitates a cynical response to contemporary evocations of and pleas for unity.
This book has three main aims. Firstly, it establishes that Marlowe