Sara Munson Deats is Distinguished University Professor of English, at the University of South Florida, USA. Robert A. Logan is Professor of English at the University of Hartford, USA

’Marlowe scholars will want to obtain this volume, and they will be rewarded by the presence of several thought-provoking essays. ...uniformly solid and clear, [...] especially useful to undergraduates approaching Marlowe's plays.’ Renaissance Quarterly

• Introduction, Sara Munson Deats, Robert A. Logan; Part 1 Marlowe and the Theater; Chapter 1 “Mark this show”, Sara Munson Deats; Chapter 2 Marlowe’s Edward II and the Early Playhouse Audiences, Ruth Lunney; Chapter 3 Edmund Kean, Anti-Semitism, and The Jew of Malta, Stephanie Moss; Part 2 Marlowe And The Family; Chapter 4 The Hopeless Daughter of a Hapless Jew, Lagretta Tallent Lenker; Chapter 5 A Study in Ambivalence, Joyce Karpay; Chapter 6 Masculinity, Performance, and Identity, Merry G. Perry; Part 3 Marlowe, Ethics, and Religion; Chapter 7 Almost Famous, Always Iterable, Rick Bowers; Chapter 8 Misbelief, False Profession, and The Jew of Malta, William M. Hamlin; Chapter 9 Doctor Faustus and the Early Modern Language of Addiction, Deborah Willis; Chapter 10 Rhetorical Strategies for a locus terribilis, Christine McCall Probes; Chapter 11 Barabas and Charles I, John Parker; Part 4 Marlowe and Shakespeare; Chapter 12 Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Theoretically Irrelevant Author, Constance Brown Kuriyama; Chapter 13 “Glutted with Conceit”, Robert A. Logan; Chapter 14 Christopher Marlowe, David Bevington;