Christopher Marlowe critical quotes

Question 1

What does Jonathon Hart suggest is paradoxical about Marlowe’s protagonists?

Answer 1

They ‘move towards the general, public and impersonal through self-dramatization’

Question 2

What does Jonathon Hart suggest is the central dilemma of Marlowe’s work

Answer 2

Questions of ‘absence and presence’

Question 3

What does Jonathon Hart suggest is Marlowe’s main technique?

Answer 3

Apostrophe - ‘the attempt in language to bring something into being…a character tries to control the world outside the self’ but finds this ‘inevitably limited’

Question 4

What does Frank Whigham identify

Answer 4

‘the compulsive focus of Marlowe’s protagonists’

[could comment on them being Renaissance men taken to extremes?]

Question 5

How did Thomas Beard condemn Marlowe in ‘The Theatre of God’s Judgements’ (1597)?

Answer 5

guilty of ‘giving too large a swinge to his own wit, and suffering his lust to have the full reins’ and denying God