Stages of Power: Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592

Stages of Power: Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592

Stages of Power: Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592

Stages of Power: Marlowe and Shakespeare, 1592

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Overview

It is October 1592. Christopher Marlowe, the most accomplished playwright in London, has written The Massacre at Paris for his company, the Lord Admiral's Men. Bubonic plague has hit outlying parishes, forcing theaters to close and postponing the season. Ordinarily, the Rose Theatre would debut Marlowe's work, but its subject—the St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre—is unpleasant and might inflame hostilities against Catholics and their sympathizers, such as merchants on whom trade depends. A new company, the Lord Strange's Men, boasts a young writer, William Shakespeare, who is said to have several barnburners in the queue. A competition is called to decide which company will reopen the theaters. Who will most effectively represent the nation's ideals and energies, its humor and grandeur? One troupe will gain supremacy, primarily for literary but also for cultural, religious, and political reasons.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781469631455
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/25/2016
Series: Reacting to the Past?
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 86
Sales rank: 586,898
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Eric S. Mallin is professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Paul V. Sullivan is lecturer of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
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