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. -- ‡c From Back Cover. Introduction : The Rivals Of My Watch -- Locating The Earliest Critics -- The Seventeenth Century : Collaboration, Co-authorship, And The Death Of The Author(s) -- The Long Eighteenth Century : Limbs Torn Asunder, Borrowing The Bones, And Identifying The Corpus -- The Nineteenth Century : The Space(s) Of The Critical Rivalry In London -- The Twentieth Century : Formalization, Polarization And Fictionalization -- The Twenty-first Century : Trauma, Drama, Conspiracy. Robert Sawyer. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 343-374) And Index. "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." [4ème de couverture] Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: “The Rivals of My Watch” (Robert Sawyer)....Pages 1-16 Locating the Earliest “Critics” (Robert Sawyer)....Pages 17-83 The Seventeenth Century: “Collaboration, Co-Authorship, and the Death of the Author(s)” (Robert Sawyer)....Pages 85-156 The Long Eighteenth Century: “Limbs Torn Asunder, Borrowing the Bones, and Identifying the Corpus” (Robert Sawyer)....Pages 157-211 The Nineteenth Century: “The Space(s) of the Critical Rivalry in London” (Robert Sawyer)....Pages 213-261 The Twentieth Century: “Formalization, Polarization, and Fictionalization” (Robert Sawyer)....Pages 263-306 The Twenty-First Century: “Trauma, Drama, Conspiracy” (Robert Sawyer)....Pages 307-341 Back Matter ....Pages 343-382
