Marlowe and Shakespeare: The Critical Rivalry - 9781349952267

Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artistic production. Focusing on specific examples from the last 400 years, the study begins with Robert GreeneÆs 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. The work concludes by showing how the most recent outbreak of Marlowe as ShakespeareÆs ghostwriter accelerates due to a climate of conspiracy, including ôbelief echoes,ö which presently permeate our cultural and critical discourse.

• | Author: Robert Sawyer
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 393 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1349952265
• | ISBN-13: 9781349952267