The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

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Sixteen leading scholars provide authoritative chapters on relevant topics of Marlowes life and works in this complete introduction to the famed pioneer of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. The essays cover his texts and style use of classicism and representations of sexuality and gender as well as of geography and identity. The volume also considers the religious political courtly and literary contexts of Marlowes authorship his presence in modern film and theater and his influence on subsequent writers.