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The most up-to-date contextual guide to Christopher Marlowe's world and the full range of his poetry and drama.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 1994 Bartels focuses on Marlowe's preoccupation with "strangers" and "strange" lands, and his use--and subversion--of Elizabethan stereotypes. Setting Marlovian drama in the context of England's nascent imperialism, Bartels probes the significance of the alien as the vital presence on the Renaissance stage and within Renaissance society.

The most up-to-date contextual guide to Christopher Marlowe's world and the full range of his poetry and drama.

Speaking of the MoorFrom "Alcazar" to "Othello"Emily C. Bartels"Bartels is one of the first, and certainly one of the most influential, literary critics to emphasize the crucial point that before the onset of the Atlantic slave trade, Africa's place in early modern English conceptualizations was open ended. She shows with great clarity that narratives of Africa were diverse and unpredictable."--Mary Floyd-Wilson, University of North Carolina a...