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Article: The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe.
- Article from:
- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe. By Ian McAdam. Cranbury, N.J.: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 283 pp. 34.50 [pounds sterling].
Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization. By Fred B. Tromly. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 1999. xi +238 pp. $50; 37.50 [pounds sterling].
Both these books offer a critical look at Marlowe as a writer, examining what are argued to be consistent tendencies and strategies in his work in terms (to a greater or lesser extent) of qualities that might be expected to have been ...