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This Work Makes A Valuable Contribution To Marlowe Studies Because It Is The First To Consider Closely The Connection Between Sexual And Religious Conflicts In The Plays, Emphasizing Psychological Readings While Also Attending To Historical Matter And Recent Theoretical Developments. Engaging The Theories Of Heinz Kohut On The Individual's Struggle For Manliness And Personal Wholeness, Mcadam Illustrates How Two Fundamental Points Of Destabilization In Marlowe's Life And Work - His Subversive Treatment Of Christian Belief And His Ambivalence Toward His Homosexuality - Clarify The Plays' Interest In The Struggle For Self-authorization. The Author Posits A Post-freudian Argument In Favor Of Pre-oedipal Narcissistic Pathology In Marlowe's Plays, In Contrast To Kuriyama's Psychoanalytic Study, Hammer Or Anvil, Which Is Freudian In Approach And Concerned With Oedipal Patterns. The Book Argues For A Dialectical Pattern Of Psychological Development. 1. Introduction -- 2. Dido Queen Of Carthage: Tenuous Manhood -- 3. Tamburlaine The Great: Tenuous Godhood -- 4. Doctor Faustus: The Exorcism Of God -- 5. The Jew Of Malta: The Failure Of Carnal Identity -- 6. The Massacre At Paris: The Exorci

Author

Ian Mcadam

Publisher

Newark: University of Delaware Press ; London: Associated University Presses

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874136654

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Psychology, Humanities