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"What passions call you these": Privacy and Metapoetic Foreignness in Marlowe’s Edward II
Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2469-6431
2018 (English)In: Renæssanceforum: Tidsskrift for renæssanceforskning, E-ISSN 1902-5041, Vol. 13, p. 43-72Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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This essay argues that Marlowe's Edward II engages with English history and politics through a metadiscussion of the rhetorical, linguistic and aesthetic foundations of vernacular culture. The play's frequent referencing of Latin, Italian and French suggests a distinction between a public and orthodox understanding of history and politics, and an artful Latinate idiom connected to notions of privacy and Ovidian poetics as well as to non-English, demonised languages. By enriching its modes of expression with snatches of other languages as well as multiplicitous references to specific Latin literary patterns, Edward II privileges the irresponsibly 'private' and hence distances itself from a vernacular construction of public history and affairs.

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Forum for Renæssancestudier , 2018. Vol. 13, p. 43-72
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Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, early modern drama, metadrama, privacy, politics in literature
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Humanities, English literature; Humanities, Comparative literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-98891OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-98891DiVA, id: diva2:1844596
Available from: 2018-09-28 Created: 2024-03-14Bibliographically approved

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