Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe

478 Pages·1993·1.28 MB·English

by  Emily Carroll Bartels

Spectacles of Strangeness : Imperialism,
title:
Alienation, and Marlowe
author: Bartels, Emily Carroll.
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
isbn10 | asin: 0812231937
print isbn13: 9780812231939
ebook isbn13: 9780585126449
language: English
Marlowe, Christopher,--1564-1593--
Criticism and interpretation, Political plays,
English--History and criticism, Alienation
subject (Social psychology) in literature, Drama--
Psychological aspects, Imperialism in
literature, Exoticism in literature,
Aesthetics, Br
publication date: 1993
lcc: PR2674.B37 1993eb
ddc: 822/.3
Marlowe, Christopher,--1564-1593--
Criticism and interpretation, Political plays,
English--History and criticism, Alienation
subject: (Social psychology) in literature, Drama--
Psychological aspects, Imperialism in
literature, Exoticism in literature,
Aesthetics, Br
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Spectacles of Strangeness
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Spectacles of Strangeness
Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe
Emily C. Bartels
University of Pennsylvania Press
Philadelphia
Frontispiece: John White, Pictish Man Holding a Human Head. Courtesy of the British
Museum.
Copyright © 1993 by the University of Pennsylvania Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bartels, Emily Carroll.
Spectacles of strangeness: imperialism, alienation, and Marlowe / Emily C. Bartels.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8122-3193-7
1. Marlowe, Christopher, 15641593Criticism and interpretation. 2. Alienation
(Social psychology) in literature. 3. Imperialism in literature. 4. Exoticism in
literature. 5. Spectacular, The. I. Title.
PR2674.B37 1993
822´.3dc20 92-45865
CIP
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To
ANN BAYNES COIRO,
with admiration and love
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
A Note on the Texts xi
Introduction xiii
Part I. Setting the Stage 1
Chapter 1. Strange and Estranging Spectacles: Strategies 3
of State and Stage
Part II. The Alien Abroad 27
Chapter 2. Reproducing Africa: Dido, Queen of Carthage 29
and Colonialist Discourse
Chapter 3. East of England: Imperialist Self-Construction 53
in Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2
Chapter 4. Capitalizing on the Jew: The Third Term in 82
The Jew of Malta
Part III. The Alien at Home 109
Chapter 5. Demonizing Magic: Patterns of Power in 111
Doctor Faustus
Page viii
Chapter 6. The Show of Sodomy: Minions and Dominions143
in Edward II
Conclusion 173
Notes 177
Works Cited 205
Index 215
Page ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book could not have happened, and happened so deliciously,
without the professional and personal support of many institutions,
colleagues, and friends, to which and to whom I am much indebted.
Crucial work on this project has been funded by two Rutgers
University Research Council Summer Fellowships (1988, 1989) and
encouraged by the FAS Office of the Dean. I have also benefited from
the resources of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the kindnesses of
its staff. Parts of Chapter 2 have appeared in "Making More of the
Moor: Aaron, Othello, and Renaissance Refashionings of Race,"
Shakespeare Quarterly 41 (1990) and "Imperialist Beginnings:
Richard Hakluyt and the Construction of Africa," Criticism 34 (1992),
parts of Chapter 3 in "The Double Vision of the East: Imperialist Self-
Construction in Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Part One," Renaissance
Drama 23 (1992), and are reprinted in revised form by permission of
Shakespeare Quarterly, Wayne State University Press, and
Northwestern University Press, respectively. Chapter 4 first took
shape as an MLA talk given to the Marlowe Society, which has
remained a receptive audience, and as an essay, ''Malta, the Jew, and
the Fictions of Difference: Colonialist Discourse in Marlowe's The
Jew of Malta" in English Literary Renaissance 20 (1990) :116. I am
especially indebted to the editorsArthur Kinney, Mary Beth Rose,
Barbara Mowat, and Arthur Marottifor their continued interest in my
work. Some of the early groundwork for Chapter s appeared in
Renaissance Papers 1989, and I owe thanks to the Southeastern
Renaissance Conference for providing me with a congenial forum in
which to test this material.
This project began at Harvard under the enthusiastic guidance of
Marjorie Garber, who, in introducing me to Marlowe, opened an