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Playing with Desire : Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization /

"Playing with Desire takes a new approach to Christopher Marlowe's body of writing, replacing the view of Marlovian desire as heroic aspiration with a far less uplifting model. Fred B. Tromly shows that in Marlowe's writing desire is a response to calculated, teasing enticement, ultim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tromly, Fred B., 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Marlowe and the torment of Tantalus
  • Translation as template: all of Ovid's Elegies
  • Playing with the powerless: Dido Queen of Carthage
  • The conquerer's and the playwright's games: Tamburlaine the Great, part one and part two
  • Playing with avarice: The Jew of Malta
  • The play of history and desire: Edward II
  • Damnation as tantalization: Doctor Faustus
  • Frustrating the story of desire: Hero and Leander.