Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe

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University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, Jun 29, 1993 - Literary Criticism - 234 pages

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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 the vital presence on the Renaissance stage and within Renaissance society.

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Dido Queen
29
Imperialist Self
53
The Third Term
82
Copyright

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About the author (1993)

Emily C. Bartels is Professor of English at Rutgers University and Associate Director of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She is author of Speaking of the Moor: From "Alcazar" to "Othello", which also was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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TitleSpectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe
AuthorEmily C. Bartels
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 1993
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized18 Jun 2008
ISBN0812231937, 9780812231939
Length234 pages
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Literary Criticism / Renaissance
  
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