The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe

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University of Delaware Press, 1999 - 283 頁
McAdam illustrates how two fundamental points of destabilisation 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-authorisation.

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Acknowledgements
9
Tenuous Manhood
44
Tenuous Godhood
73
The Exorcism of God
112
The Failure of Carnal Identity
146
The Exorcism of Machevil
175
The Illusion of Integrity
198
Conclusion
232
Notes
247
Bibliography
271
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第 133 頁 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus ! leave these frivolous demands.
第 217 頁 - And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? — Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.
第 228 頁 - How fast they run to banish him I love! They would not stir, were it to do me good. Why should a king be subject to a priest ? Proud Rome! that hatchest such imperial grooms, For these thy superstitious taper-lights, Wherewith thy antichristian churches blaze, I'll fire thy crazed buildings, and enforce 1°° The papal towers to kiss the lowly ground!
第 74 頁 - And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, ' We'll lead you to the stately tent of war, ' Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine ' Threatening the world with high astounding terms, ' And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
第 128 頁 - What art thou — the first? PRIDE. I am Pride. I disdain to have any parents. I am like to Ovid's flea: I can creep into every corner of a wench...
第 141 頁 - Wertenberg, never read book! and what wonders I have done, all Germany can witness, yea, all the world; for which Faustus hath lost both Germany and the world, yea, heaven itself, heaven, the seat...
第 135 頁 - Faustus, since our conference about fair ladies, which was the beautifullest in all the world, we have determined with ourselves that Helen of Greece was the admirablest lady that ever lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us that...
第 139 頁 - And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth ; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

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