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Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artistic production. Focusing on specific examples from the last 400 years, the study begins with Robert Greene’s comments in 1592 and ends with the post-9/11 and 7/7 era. The study not only looks at literary critics and their assessments, but also at playwrights such as Aphra Behn, novelists such as Anthony Burgess, and late twentieth-century movie and theatre directors. The work concludes by showing how the most recent outbreak of Marlowe as Shakespeare’s ghostwriter accelerates due to a climate of conspiracy, including “belief echoes,” which presently permeate our cultural and critical discourse. ** Review “More than a biography, Robert Sawyer's book gives us a sweeping history of four centuries of the critical and theatrical reception of these two intertwined geniuses, both of them products of the sixteenth-century educational and religious revolution, who shared stages, printers, publishers, and the expanding international port city of London. They are 'rivals' only in the sense that my le

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Author

Robert Sawyer (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349952274

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities