Table of Contents:
  • Marlowe and Shakespeare : repositioning the question of sources and influence
  • Unfelt imaginations : influence and characterization in The massacre at Paris, Titus Andronicus, and Richard III
  • Hero and Leander and Venus and Adonis : artistic individuality and the ideology of containment
  • Edward II, Richard II, the will to play, and an aesthetic of ambiguity
  • For a tricksy word / defy the matter : the influence of The Jew of Malta on The merchant of Venice
  • Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays, Shakespeare's Henry V, and the primacy of an artistic consciousness
  • Making the haunt his : Dido, Queen of Carthage as a precursor to Antony and Cleopatra
  • Glutted with conceit : imprints of Doctor Faustus on Macbeth and The tempest
  • Conclusion : Marlovian incentives.