TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tromly,Fred B.
TI  - Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization 
SN  - 9780802043559
AV  - PR2677.T37 
U1  - 822/.3 
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Aggressiveness in literature
KW  - Control (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Drama
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Teasing in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Playing with Desire takes a new approach to Christopher Marlowe's body of writing, replacing the view of Marlovian desire as heroic aspiration with a far less uplifting model. Fred B. Tromly shows that in Marlowe's writing desire is a response to calculated, teasing enticement, ultimately a sign not of power but of impotence. The author identifies this desire with the sadistic irony of the Tantalus myth rather than with the sublime tragedy exemplified by the familiar figure of Icarus. Thus, Marlowe's characteristic mis en scene is moved from the heavens to the netherworld. Tromly also demonstrates that the manipulations of desire among Marlowe's characters find close parallels in the strategies by which his works tantalize and frustrate their audiences.Closely examining all the plays and the major poems, the author deploys a variety of resources - Renaissance mythography, the study of literary sources (especially Ovid), comparisons with contemporary writers, performance history, and social history - to demonstrate how central Tantalus and tantalizing are to Marlowe's imagination
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