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The Jew of Malta (Norton Critical Editions): 0 - Softcover

Christopher Marlowe

 
9780393643350: The Jew of Malta (Norton Critical Editions): 0

Synopsis

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

The 1633 quarto (Q) text—the only authoritative version—with modernised spelling and silent alteration of obvious errors, of confusing punctuation and of word-form changes. A Textual Notes section follows the play.

Editorial matter by Lloyd Kermode.

Six illustrations and one map.

An unusually rich selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century contexts, thematically organised to promote classroom discussion. Topics include “Theater and Marlowe”, “Machiavelli and Mediterranean Identities” and "Ideas of the Jew".

Twenty-seven critical interpretations spanning three centuries and including seven considerations of The Jew of Malta in performance.

A chronology and a selected bibliography.

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About the Author

LLOYD EDWARD KERMODE is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. He edited Three Renaissance Usury Plays for the Revels Companion series (2009) and coedited Tudor Drama before Shakespeare (2004) and the collection “Space and Place in Early Modern Drama” for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013). He is the author of Aliens and Englishness in Elizabethan Drama (2009), and of a number of essays on cultural identity in literature and on the theory and experience of space in early modern England.

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