Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Eriksen, Roy

Titel

Working with Marlowe: Shakespeare's early engagement with Marlowe's poetics

Ist Teil von

• Marlowe studies, 2015-01, Vol.5, p.21-193

Ort / Verlag

Fort Wayne: Sheffield Hallam University

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (1Tam, 2.7.19) He obviously sees Marlowe, who was among the poets and intellectuals gravitating around Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke,20 as a proponent of a Neoplatonizing poetics. [...]he follows in the footsteps of Sir Philip Sidney, who in An Apologyfor Poetry (1595) describes how a poet "with the force of a divine breath . . . bringeth things far surpassing [nature's] doings. Teaching all that read to know The quintessence of evert' sprite Heaven would in little show. [...]Heaven Nature charged, That one body should be filled With all graces wide-enlarged: Nature presently distilled Helen's cheek, but not her heart, Cleopatra's majesty, Atalanta's better part, Sad Lucretia's modesty. [...]Rosalind of many parts By heavenly synod was devised, Of many faces, eyes, and hearts, To have the touches dearest prized . . [...]of him abandoning her50 and suppressing his love for her and instead fulfilling his political mission ("Italiam non sponte sequor"), she commits suicide by sacrificing herself on the pyre (5.1.292-313).