This study locates Marlowe's career, both as a dramatist and a spy, within the stage play world of Elizabethan society. It reconstructs the cultural mentality of the Elizabethan spectator through an analysis of the spectacles that were staged by the authorities to both display and maintain their power. It shows how religious and political hostility towards the Elizabethan public theatres was conditioned by a fear that they provided an alternative, or competing, space for spectacle. Marlowe's major plays indicate that this fear was well-founded since they offered a provocative critique of theatricalized as well as written propaganda. They encouraged their audiences to question the theatrical forms, or spectacles, associated with orthodox ideological positions.

Christopher Marlowe

Literature & Fiction

Sales, Roger

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

English Literature in History, 1780-1830: Pastoral and Politics

Roger Sales concentrates on two related themes - the politics of pastoral and the theater of politics - in this original study of the literature of the Romantic period. In both of these sections of the book literary texts and events are studied in the context of social activity and historical events. The politics of the pastoral analyzes the use of the genre by a number of familiar writers, including William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, and George Crabbe, and by lesser-known poets such as John Clare and Robert Bloomfield. The author argues that all literary treatments of rural society during this period make political statements, particularly when the economic facts of life are displaced or disguised. Sales second theme focuses on some of the main political events of the period: the trials of the Cato Street conspirators, the trial of Queen Caroline, and certain parliamentary elections. Also covered here are the political writings of Thomas Paine and Edmunde Burke, the novels of Trollope,

St.Martin's Press

Christopher Marlowe (English Dramatists)

Dramas & Plays

Palgrave HE UK

Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England

Roger Sales reconstructs the breadth of Austen's writing, including her correspondence and modern adaptations of her work. In an accessible study, he views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England.

British & Irish

Routledge

In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuve, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works; her letters - in the context of those of other Regency women; as well as contemporary texts such as television adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England reconstructs the breadth of Jane Austen's writing. It also examines: * her representations of dandyism and masculine identities * the events of the Regency crisis of 1810-12 * the way in which Austen engaged in topical debates such as healthcare in both Emma and Persuasion.

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Christopher Marlowe

English Literature in History, 1780-1830: Pastoral and Politics

Christopher Marlowe

Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England

Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England

Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England