Table of Contents

Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Introduction; A.Oz Strange and Estranging Spectacles: Strategies of State and Stage; E.C.Bartels Christopher Marlowe: Ideology and Subversion; M.Hattaway Faces of Nation and Barbarism: Prophetic Mimicry and the Politics of Tamburlaine the Great; A.Oz Marlowe, Marx and Anti-Semitism; S.Greenblatt 'So Neatly Plotted, and So Well Perform'd': Villain and Playwright in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; S.M.Deats & L.S.Starks Economic and Ideological Exchange in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; D.Thurn Doctor Faustus: Subversion Through Transgression; J.Dollimore Doctor Faustus and Knowledge in Conflict; C.Belsey Reading Faustus's God; A.Sinfield The Terms of Gender: 'Gay' and 'Feminist' Edward II; D.Callaghan Queer Edward II: Postmodern Sexualities and the Early Modern Subject; T.Cartelli Further Reading A Marlowe Chronology Notes on Contributors Index.

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EMILY C. BARTELS Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University CATHERINE BELSEY Professor of English at Cardiff University DYMPNA CALLAGHAN William Pearson Tolley Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University THOMAS CARTELLI Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English and Humanities at Muhlenberg College SARA MUNSON DEATS Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Center of Applied Humanities at the University of South Florida JONATHAN DOLLIMORE Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York STEPHEN GREENBLATT Professor of English at Harvard University MICHAEL HATTAWAY Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield ALAN SINFIELD Professor of English in the School of Cultural and Community Studies at the University of Sussex LISA S. STARKS Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida. DAVID THURN Associate Professor of English at Princeton University

About the Author

AVRAHAM OZ is Professor of Drama at the University of Haifa and Visiting Professor of Drama at Tel Aviv University.