Spectacles of strangeness : imperialism, alienation, and Marlowe /
Oriental barbarians, black magicians, homosexuals, African queens and kings, Machiavellian Christians, Turks, and Jews - for an English audience of the sixteenth century, these are marginal, unorthodox, and strange figures. They are also the central figures in the plays of Christopher Marlowe. In Sp...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1993.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16nzg2r |
Table des matières:
- pt. I. Setting the Stage. Ch. 1. Strange and Estranging Spectacles: Strategies of State and Stage
- pt. II. The Alien Abroad. Ch. 2. Reproducing Africa: Dido, Queen of Carthage and Colonialist Discourse. Ch. 3. East of England: Imperialist Self-Construction in Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2. Ch. 4. Capitalizing on the Jew: The Third Term in The Jew of Malta
- pt. III. The Alien at Home. Ch. 5. Demonizing Magic: Patterns of Power in Doctor Faustus. Ch. 6. The Show of Sodomy: Minions and Dominions in Edward II.