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Article: Shakespeare's anxious epistemology: Love's Labor's Lost and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.(Critical Essay)
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- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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James Shapiro has described the relationship between Shakespeare and Marlowe as one in which "Shakespeare seems to be very much aware of what Marlowe is up to and chooses to chart a parallel course" (103). (1) Such comparative trends have helped to redress a longstanding stratification of the two playwrights, evinced by (among others) Harold Bloom in his Anxiety of Influence, where Shakespeare is largely omitted since his "prime precursor was Marlowe, a poet very much smaller than his inheritor" (11). (2) Other critics have broadly cross-examined such plays as The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta, and some have detected Marlovian influence in Titus Andronicus, The ...