Christopher Marlowe and Edward Alleyn

Wraight's subject, Christopher Marlowe and the Elizabethan theatre world that he dominated in a theatrical partnership with the gifted, young actor Edward Alleyn, develops into a long-awaited definitive biographical study of Alleyn's theatrical career, spanning to the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, during which he continued to act Marlowe's great roles.

In particular, this book poses vital questions for Shakespearean scholars which this research has brought to light in the revelation of the true identity of "Shake-scene," who was so vituperatively attacked by the dying dramatist Robert Greene in his Groatsworth of Wit in September 1592.

ISBN	189776300X	DEWEY edition	DC20
ISBN13	9781897763001 (What's this?)	Pages	400
Publisher	Adam Hart (Publishers) Ltd	Weight (grammes)	1021
Imprint	Adam Hart (Publishers) Ltd	Published in	London
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	240
Publication date	01 Feb 1993	Width (mm)	165
Library of Congress	PR2677.S75	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY	822.3

	Preface
I	The Triumph of Tamburlaine	1
II	A Great Theatrical Partnership	38
III	An 'Armada' English History Play	65
IV	Three Plays of the Pembroke Players	109
V	Greene's Groatsworth of Wit: The Whole Story	130
VI	The Case for 'Shake-Scene' Presented by The New Orthodoxy	168
VII	Johannes Factotum and His Works	186
VIII	A New Play at the Rose With its New Look	238
IX	Greene's Last Comedy	282
X	The Great 'Shake-Scene'	322
XI	The Rose	363
XII	The Bear Garden and the Fortune	405
XIII	The End of an Era	432
Appendix A	Alexander's X and Y Texts	449
Appendix B	Parallelisms	455
	Notes and References	461
	Index	486

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