Christopher Marlowe

A Literary Life

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by Lisa Hopkins

Palgrave

Due/Published December 2000, 192 pages, cloth

ISBN 0333698231

Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include: Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them; the importance of his scholarly background; his consistent portrayal of family groups as fissured and troubled; the challenge that his works posed to contemporary orthodoxies about religion, sexuality, and government; and the long and sometimes spectacular afterlife of his works and of his literary reputation as a whole.

Contents

Introduction
1580-1587: Canterbury and Cambridge
1587-1589: London and the World
1589-1592: Daring God out of Heaven
1592-1593: Tobacco and Boys
A Great Reckoning: From 1593 to Immortality