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Marlowe's Republican Authorship

Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. P. Cheney
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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime is the first attempt to situate Marlowe's well-known iconoclastic dissidence within the historical context of Elizabethan republican thought, revealing Marlowe to be the literary pioneer of a new form of republican art.

Keywords

  • art
  • civil war
  • empire
  • freedom
  • John Milton
  • knowledge
  • liberty
  • monarchy
  • play
  • poem
  • translation
  • British and Irish Literature

Reviews

'A much-needed scholarly study, highlighting Marlowe's commitment to ideas of 'liberty'. Tracing the influence of republican thought from 1570s France, Netherlands and Scotland, it convincingly defines Marlowe's work as an expression of 'linguistic' and 'imaginative' republicanism, bringing his better-known texts into fruitful dialogue with unjustly overlooked works, such as the translation of Book One of Lucan's Pharsalia.' - Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield

About the author

PATRICK CHENEY is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He specializes in English Renaissance literature, and has published monographs on Spenser, Marlowe and Shakespeare, as well as edited collections of essays on all three.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Marlowe's Republican Authorship

  • Book Subtitle: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime

  • Authors: P. Cheney

  • Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3341-6Published: 28 November 2008

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5919

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 248

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