Marlowe's Republican Authorship

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.

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on Texts
Introduction: Was Marlowe a Republican?
Republican Representation: Marlowe, the Age of Elizabeth, and Lucan's First Book
Authorship, Freedom, and Rapture in Marlowe's Ovidian Poems
'Defend his freedom 'gainst a monarchy': Empire and Liberty in Dido, Queen of Carthage and Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two
Machevill's Republican Monarchy: Civil War in The Jew of Malta , The Massacre at Paris, and Edward II
'To make man live eternally': The Skeptical Sublime in Doctor Faustus
Afterword: The Afterlife of Marlowe's Republican Authorship, Nashe to Milton
Works Cited
Index