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• catalog abstract "Oriental barbarians, black magicians, homosexuals, African queens and kings, Machiavellian Christians, Turks, and Jews - for an English audience of the sixteenth century, these are marginal, unorthodox, and strange figures. They are also the central figures in the plays of Christopher Marlowe. In Spectacles of Strangeness, Emily C. Bartels focuses on Marlowe's preoccupation with "strangers" and "strange" lands, and his use - and subversion - of Elizabethan stereotypes. Setting Marlovian drama in the context of England's nascent imperialism, Bartels probes the significance of the alien as a vital presence on the Renaissance stage and within Renaissance society. Bartels further examines the reasons that Marlowe (himself a marginalized figure as playwright, and reputedly a homosexual, spy, and atheist) turned again and again to the subject. Bartels argues that what makes Marlowe's dramas so remarkable, important, and subversive is that he evokes these cultural stereotypes only to undermine them: to expose the circumscription of difference as a political strategy, designed to advance the self, state, and status quo over and against some "other." By interrogating Marlowe's works and their relation to England's imperialism, the author helps to explain why the "alien" was such a prominent figure in the Renaissance's theatrical and extra-theatrical discourses and how imperialism influenced the development of the early modern theater and the early modern state. Drawing on new historicist methodologies and recent assessments of colonialist discourse, Spectacles of Strangeness is a stimulating study of one of the most important figures in Renaissance literature and drama.".
• catalog contributor b4763726.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.".
• catalog description "Oriental barbarians, black magicians, homosexuals, African queens and kings, Machiavellian Christians, Turks, and Jews - for an English audience of the sixteenth century, these are marginal, unorthodox, and strange figures. They are also the central figures in the plays of Christopher Marlowe. In Spectacles of Strangeness, Emily C. Bartels focuses on Marlowe's preoccupation with "strangers" and "strange" lands, and his use - and subversion - of Elizabethan stereotypes. Setting Marlovian drama in the context of England's nascent imperialism, Bartels probes the significance of the alien as a vital presence on the Renaissance stage and within Renaissance society. Bartels further examines the reasons that Marlowe (himself a marginalized figure as playwright, and reputedly a homosexual, spy, and atheist) turned again and again to the subject. Bartels argues that what makes Marlowe's dramas so remarkable, important, and subversive is that he evokes these cultural stereotypes only to undermine them: to expose the circumscription of difference as a political strategy, designed to advance the self, state, and status quo over and against some "other." By interrogating Marlowe's works and their relation to England's imperialism, the author helps to explain why the "alien" was such a prominent figure in the Renaissance's theatrical and extra-theatrical discourses and how imperialism influenced the development of the early modern theater and the early modern state. Drawing on new historicist methodologies and recent assessments of colonialist discourse, Spectacles of Strangeness is a stimulating study of one of the most important figures in Renaissance literature and drama.".
• catalog description "pt. I. Setting the Stage. Ch. 1. Strange and Estranging Spectacles: Strategies of State and Stage -- pt. II. The Alien Abroad. Ch. 2. Reproducing Africa: Dido, Queen of Carthage and Colonialist Discourse. Ch. 3. East of England: Imperialist Self-Construction in Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2. Ch. 4. Capitalizing on the Jew: The Third Term in The Jew of Malta -- pt. III. The Alien at Home. Ch. 5. Demonizing Magic: Patterns of Power in Doctor Faustus. Ch. 6. The Show of Sodomy: Minions and Dominions in Edward II.".
• catalog extent "xvii, 221 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Spectacles of strangeness.".
• catalog identifier "0812231937".
• catalog isFormatOf "Spectacles of strangeness.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
• catalog relation "Spectacles of strangeness.".
• catalog subject "822/.3 20".
• catalog subject "Aesthetics, British.".
• catalog subject "Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.".
• catalog subject "Drama Psychological aspects.".
• catalog subject "Exoticism in literature.".
• catalog subject "Imperialism in literature.".
• catalog subject "Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "PR2674 .B37 1993".
• catalog subject "Political plays, English History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Spectacular, The.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Setting the Stage. Ch. 1. Strange and Estranging Spectacles: Strategies of State and Stage -- pt. II. The Alien Abroad. Ch. 2. Reproducing Africa: Dido, Queen of Carthage and Colonialist Discourse. Ch. 3. East of England: Imperialist Self-Construction in Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2. Ch. 4. Capitalizing on the Jew: The Third Term in The Jew of Malta -- pt. III. The Alien at Home. Ch. 5. Demonizing Magic: Patterns of Power in Doctor Faustus. Ch. 6. The Show of Sodomy: Minions and Dominions in Edward II.".
• catalog title "Spectacles of strangeness : imperialism, alienation, and Marlowe / Emily C. Bartels.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".