...yet I'll hammer it out
a surfeit of Pumfreys (spelt Pontefracts)
random fannish pseudo-insight 
31 October 2005, 02:11 am
richard ii looks down his nose
...achieved while discussing the trendiness of Christopher Marlowe with [info]commodorified:

Marlowe is the Sirius Black of Elizabethan drama.

Discuss. Or, you know, don't. ;)
Comments 
31 October 2005, 12:20 am (UTC)
Marlowe, like Black, possesses a bad-boy image and ambiguous sexuality that renders him appealing to fangirls?
31 October 2005, 12:22 am (UTC)
Pretty much, yes! ;)
31 October 2005, 02:48 am (UTC)
does that make Shakespeare the Remus Lupin of Elizabethan drama?
31 October 2005, 08:11 am (UTC)
or on second thought, Shakespeare is the James Potter... john Webster would be the Remus Lupin
31 October 2005, 12:16 pm (UTC)
Not a member of the Establishment, but a supporter of it. Yeah, James would be Shakespeare.
31 October 2005, 05:00 am (UTC)
Not to mention the fact that he died far too early and in a quick, ignominious manner that doesn't seem at all suited to him.
10 November 2005, 09:11 pm (UTC)
I tend to describe Marlowe as the Elizabethan James Dean: lived fast, died young, and left a good looking corpus... not to mention a portrait showing a marked resemblance to the younger Johnny Depp.
31 October 2005, 01:12 am (UTC)
lol - love it!
31 October 2005, 02:12 am (UTC)
Oh God, that's so TRUE!
31 October 2005, 08:58 am (UTC)
I have a very long and complicated theory about how the Duchess of Malfi is actually the Sirius Black of early modern drama, but that works, I guess :)
10 November 2005, 09:11 pm (UTC)
Marlowe is the Sirius Black of Elizabethan drama.

OMG! I love it!
11 November 2005, 06:25 am (UTC)
PS: I'd love to hear more about any conclusions you came to on Marlowe's trendiness.

I have a few ideas, but I think I'm going to use this entry of yours as a springboard for my own post in [info]riba_rambles.

FWIW, checking my list, 2004 was the biggest year for Marlowe fiction, with 6 books, 1 short-story and 1 new play.
1993 (the year after The Reckoning was released) came in second, with 6 works.

Even though there's one month left to go in the year, 2005 only has four new works, which include one play and two self-published, tying for fourth place with 2000. [2002 ranked 3rd]
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