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'Modern for the Times': Lording Barry, Christopher Marlowe, and Ovid
Ist Teil von
Studies in English literature, 1500-1900, 2020-03, Vol.60 (2), p.347-364
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
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Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The recent attribution of The Family of Love solely to Lording Barry invites a repositioning of the playwright within his dramatic milieu, especially to his contemporaries and to the early modern comic tradition. His use of Christopher Marlowe's Ovid shapes our understanding of his forerunner's reception in the early seventeenth century. Such an act of imitation suggests a type of kinship between the poets and, to some extent, validates the idea of Marlowe as influence on the creation of city comedy, for we can credit Barry as the first to employ Hero and Leander for comic effect in dramatic form, a recognition oftentimes attributed to Ben Jonson.