The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe offers a comprehensive introduction to the influential Elizabethan playwright and poet. Featuring contributions from sixteen scholars, it explores Marlowe's life, works, style, and impact on literature, politics, and gender, alongside a chronology and reading lists for further study.
Studying the sublime in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century writing, this book advances our understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the arts and humanities today. Above all, the chapters feature a model of creative excellence and social liberty that explains the greatness of the English literary Renaissance.