Christopher Marlowe, kanonični odpadnik

Christopher Marlowe, kanonični odpadnik (Christopher Marlowe, a Canonical Dissident) is the first monograph in the Slovenian language to be devoted to the English playwright, poet and translator Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593). The book looks into the reception history of Marlowe in the English and Slovenian literary systems from the time of the author’s life until today, starting with the earliest references to Marlowe by, among others, Robert Greene, Thomas Kyd, Richard Baines, Francis Meres and Thomas Beard, continuing with the Romantics and Victorians, key twentieth-century authors in the fields of feminism, gay, queer and gender studies, new historicism, cultural materialism, postcolonialism, theatre studies, etc., and finishing halfway through the second decade of the twenty-first century. After the introductory chapter, which briefly summarises the state of affairs in Marlowe studies and the scope of the book, two chapters discuss Marlowe’s biography and literary works. This is followed by chapters on the reception and canonisation of Marlowe, his role as a dissident, the Slovenian translations and stagings of his work, and a brief conclusion and postcript.