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dc.contributor.advisor | Vince, R. W. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Demers, Patricia | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:49:26Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:49:26Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2011-07-04 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1971-11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/5085 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 6109 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2085849 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10016 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>By focusing on Marlowe's borrowings from the tradition of the morality play, the study endeavours to form a picture of this playwright as neither a teacher nor an iconoclast, but as a continuer of a debate. The debate involves the morality form of his dram as and their non-morality content. It remains unresolved as an indication of Marlowe's own irresolution Tamburlaine dramatizes the debate between accepting or rejecting a world conqueror; The Jew of Malta vacillates between pitying and condemning its villain-hero, Barabas; Edward the Second has the curious appeal of a study in weakness; Doctor Faustus exposes the double culpability of its rebellious scholar-hero and of the restricting Christian system which Faustus discards. The study analyzes these four plays to show that Marlow uses the morality tradition in furthering his debate; by submitting this tradition to manipulation, perversion, debilitation and violation, the playwright remains clearly in control of the morality structures he uses. Two discoveries result from an examination of such control: Marlowe's artistry in being unresolved continues to be an area of fascination and his deliberate irresolution militates against calling him a morality playwright.</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | English Language and Literature | en_US |
dc.subject | English Language and Literature | en_US |
dc.title | Christopher Marlowe and His Use of the Morality Tradition | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | English | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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