“What right had Caesar to the empery?”: Power and the Individual in Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This honors thesis is a powerful interrogation of "radical individuality" in two plays by renegade Renaissance playwright Christopher Marlowe. This thesis covers a wealth of historical and dramatic terrain, and blends "close reading" with "distant reading" in its analysis and argument. It questions why Marlowe has not received significant attention by New Historicists; nor has Digital Humanities seen fit to bend its practices to Marlowe's plays. The first chapter discusses Dr. Faustus through various close readings, Cultural Materialism, and New Historicism. The second chapter is a Digital Humanities inquiry into The Jew of Malta. It utilizes network analysis to discuss various characters' spheres of influence.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | May 2018 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Trunzo, Dan |
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Subjects
| Subject | Christopher Marlowe |
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| Subject | New Historicism |
| Subject | Cultural Materialism |
| Subject | Dr. Faustus |
| Subject | Jew of Malta |
| Subject | Massacre at Paris |
| Subject | English Undergrad Honors Thesis |
| Genre | Thesis |
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Trunzo, Dan. (2018). “What right had Caesar to the empery?”: Power and the Individual in Plays of Christopher Marlowe
. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/yh396pv3752
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