Marlowe's Republican Authorship

PATRICK CHENEY is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He specializes in English Renaissance literature, and has published monographs on Spenser, Marlowe and Shakespeare, as well as edited collections of essays on all three.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNote on TextsIntroduction: Was Marlowe a Republican?Republican Representation: Marlowe, the Age of Elizabeth, and Lucan's First Book Authorship, Freedom, and Rapture in Marlowe's Ovidian Poems'Defend his freedom 'gainst a monarchy': Empire and Liberty in Dido, Queen of Carthage and Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two Machevill's Republican Monarchy: Civil War in The Jew of Malta , The Massacre at Paris, and Edward II 'To make man live eternally': The Skeptical Sublime in Doctor Faustus Afterword: The Afterlife of Marlowe's Republican Authorship, Nashe to MiltonWorks CitedIndex

'A much-needed scholarly study, highlighting Marlowe's commitment to ideas of 'liberty'. Tracing the influence of republican thought from 1570s France, Netherlands and Scotland, it convincingly defines Marlowe's work as an expression of 'linguistic' and 'imaginative' republicanism, bringing his better-known texts into fruitful dialogue with unjustly overlooked works, such as the translation of Book One of Lucan's Pharsalia.' - Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield