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Eleventh hour : a Kit Marlowe mystery
\"April, 1590. The queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, is dead, leaving a dangerous power vacuum. His former right hand man, Nicholas Faunt, believes he was poisoned and has ordered Kit Marlowe to discover who killed him. To find the answers, Marlowe must consult the leading scientists and thinkers in the country. But as he questions the members of the so-called School of Night, the playwright-turned-spy becomes convinced that at least one of them is hiding a deadly secret. If he is to outwit the most enquiring minds in Europe and unmask the killer within, Marlowe must devise an impossibly ingenious plan...\" -- Book jacket.
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Inventories and Invention
It is well known that collections like Richard Tottel's Songes and Sonettes (1557) were retrospectively classified as miscellanies, as both the lexicon and the conceptual categories for multiauthor books were still being developed in sixteenth-century England. \"Miscellany\" and \"anthology\" are bibliographic back-formations, impositions of modern ideals of authorship and coherence on to collections that mix the labors of compilers and poets. This essay asks what histories of production and reception have been hidden by continuing to read Elizabethan poetry books as miscellanies. In particular, how has the mixed, disorderly book been taken as an essential origin point for English literary history? Heffernan's focus is Englands Helicon (1600), a book of 150 pastoral poems from the leading poets of the day. Because its mode was so consistent, this collection has most often been understood as an anthology compiled in response to the death of Philip Sidney. But by tracing its sources, Heffernan shows how dozens of poems in Englands Helicon were not at first pastorals and only gained a rural tone through the poem titles, speech tags, and attributions added in the process of printing the collection. The expansive fictions within the printed apparatus still contribute to how poems like Christopher Marlowe's \"The Passionate Shepherd\" are read and taught today. Englands Helicon holds a history of how a generically mixed body of work began to function as a cue for interpretation, covering the circumstances of its writing and circulation with a desire to read at scale.
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Traitor's storm
\"May, 1588. With Elizabeth Is court rocked by stories of an imminent invasion and one of his key undercover agents missing, Sir Francis Walsingham despatches Kit Marlowe to the Isle of Wight off the south coast: the first line of defence against the approaching Spanish Armada.\"--Amazon.
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Between Two Worlds: Shakespeare the Ordinary Man and Artist
Jude Morgan’s novel, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare, is a work of biofiction that deals with the playwright’s life from shortly before he met Anne Hathaway up to the year 1603, highlighting private aspects such as the relationships with his family and friends – and even his rivals. At the same time, the novel offers an insight into the Elizabethan world in which William Shakespeare lived and rose to fame, actually a pretext to bring to the foreground timeless issues which characterise today’s world as well. The portrayal offered by Morgan is, therefore, one that aims to reconcile the two personas of the Bard – the family man and the poet and playwright. The present paper aims to analyse how those aspects are put forward by the novel, relying on features of postmodernism and the biographical novel, as the author attempts to fill in the gaps in Shakespeare’s life narrative. What is more, emphasis is laid on the relative concept of ‘truth’ and how it is deconstructed in the shaping of this particular version of Shakespeare’s story.
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Secret world
\"June, 1589. Now a feted poet and playwright, Kit Marlowe is visiting his family in Canterbury. But it's not the happy homecoming he had hoped for. A longstanding family friend has been found dead in her bed, killed by several blows to the head. Convinced that the wrong person has been found guilty of the crime, Marlowe determines to uncover the truth\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Galactic Milton: Angelic Robots and the Fall into Barbarism in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
Noting that \"reading Milton in light of pressing political and intellectual concerns is a practice as old as reading Milton,\" Feisal Mohamed demonstrates Milton's relevance to crises of ethics and violence in our post-9/11 world.12 In his study of Milton and film, Eric Brown shows how Paradise Lost is central to our \"cinematization of rebellious warrior angels\" that began with Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) and continues today.13 Pointing out that Milton's Satan holds a special place in our political consciousness, Reginald Wilburn documents how Malcolm X and other African American writers \"forge[d] rhetorical affiliations with Milton through the infernal hero of Paradise Lost and his tradition of poetic fallenness. [...]by theorizing a future in which humanity has overcome the hazards of both nuclear war and Nazism, Asimov's fiction reconceives his own historical moment in twentiethcentury America as the precursor to a desired, fictional future in which humanity has burgeoned into a galactic civilization.24 In its treatment of history, the Foundation series exhibits considerable generic self-awareness and epic revisionism. [...]I have not studied history. [...]this essay proposes that Milton is a major source of religious information in science fiction, and that the genre owes to Paradise Lost some of its speculation on theodicy, machine ethics or the ethics of creation, and the nature of alien life.
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‘Fabricated Lives’: Shakespearean Collaboration in Fictional Forms
The essay examines fictionalized accounts of the collaboration between Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on those that portray Christopher Marlowe as occasionally Shakespeare’s co-author. Beginning with two novels by Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love-life (1964) and A Dead Man in Deptford (1994), I then look at Peter Whelan’s play, The School of Night (1992), before concluding with the film Shakespeare in Love (1998). By looking at these popularized renditions of collaboration and biography, I conclude that the more collaborative that the fictionalized work is in origin, the more positively it portrays such relationships in Shakespeare’s time.
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Homoerotic Desire and Renaissance Lyric Verse
Many critics have tried to find explanations for why Shakespeare's sonnets and Richard Barnfield's The Affectionate Shepheard seem to have been unpopular on their original publication, whereas other equally explicit works exploring homoeroticism, such as Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander or Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, were well received by readers and audiences. This essay argues that these critics have overlooked the significance of the lyric form in their investigations. Lyric is more fluid, open-ended, and overtly performative than either narrative verse or drama, and this made it a more dangerous literary form for expressing controversial sexual sentiments.
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