Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page

Sarah K. Scott and M. L. Stapleton

Table of Contents

Introduction

Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page
            Sarah K. Scott, Mount St. Mary’s University
            M. L. Stapleton, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

I. Lives: Scholarship and Biography

Marlowe Scholarship: The Current Scene
            Robert A. Logan, University of Hartford
Marlowe Thinking Globally
            Richard F. Hardin, University of Kansas
Reviewing What We Think We Know about Christopher Marlowe, Again
            J. A. Downie, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Was Marlowe a Violent Man?
            Rosalind Barber, University of Sussex

II. Stage: Theater, Dramaturgy

Edward II and Residual Allegory
            Alan C. Dessen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
What Shakespeare Did to Marlowe in Private: Dido, Faustus, and Bottom
            Meredith Skura, Rice University
The Jew of Malta and the Development of City Comedy: “The Mean Passage of a       History”
            Sarah K. Scott, Mount St. Mary’s University
Speaking to the Audience: Direct Address in the Plays of Marlowe and his        Contemporaries
            Ruth Lunney, University of Newcastle, Australia

III. Page: Texts and Interpretations

A: Marlowe the Ovidian
On the Eventfulness of Hero and Leander
            Stephen Booth, University of California, Berkeley
Marlowe’s First Ovid: Certaine of Ovids Elegies
            M. L. Stapleton, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Marlowe and Marston’s Cursus
            Robert Darcy, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Marlowe’s Last Poem: Elegiac Aesthetics and the Epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood
            Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University

B: Marlowe’s Reach
Hell is Discovered: The Roman Destination of Doctor Faustus
            Brett Foster, Wheaton College
Consuming Sorrow: Conversion and Consumption in Tamburlaine: Part One
            Carolyn Scott, Pontifical College Josephinum
Fractional Faustus: Edward Alleyn’s Part in the Printing of the A-Text
            Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College