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Hero and Leander, Christopher Marlowe - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Baldwin, T. W. “Marlow's Musaeus.” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 54, no. 4 (October 1955): 478-85.

Investigates the influence of Musaeus's version of the Hero and Leander story on Marlowe's poem.

Braunmuller, A. R. “Marlowe's Amorous Fates in Hero and Leander.The Review of English Studies 29, no. 113 (February 1978): 56-61.

Interprets Marlowe's use of the word “engines” in Hero and Leander.

Brown, Georgia E. “Gender and Voice in Hero and Leander.” In Constructing Christopher Marlowe, edited by J. A. Downie and J. T. Parnell, pp. 148-63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Views Hero and Leander as “an agent of destabilization” and places the poem “in the context of the aesthetic and literary debates of the 1590s.”

Bush, Douglas. “Marlowe: Hero and Leander.” In...

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