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Marlowe in his Moment

By On 23/10/2012 · Leave a Comment

[At long last, a new early modern post. The essay below will appear in a volume on Marlowe in Context, edited by Emily C. Bartels and Emma Smith, and forthcoming from Cambridge University Press later this year — for full citations, see the print version.]

What exactly was Christopher Marlowe’s ‘moment’? Was it the late […]

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Well-Read Plays I

By On 21/12/2011 · 5 Comments

Here’s the first in a series of posts on a long-term research project I’m working on. The project as a whole asks what a printed play was in early modern England — why anyone would have thought turning performance scripts into books was a good idea in the first place, how those books evolved over […]

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