Date of Award
1-1-1968
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Glen Newkirk
Abstract
Christopher Marlow still remains a largely undefined dramatist in the twentieth century. Scholarship in the past fifty years has shed much light on the historical facts of his life, but there has been little effort to place his dramatic output in the stream of English letters. He remains to many a curiosity, both in the style and the content of his works. The facts of Marlowe’s life, discovered by scholars, have created as many problems as they have solved. Fragmentary evidence has been utilized in an effort to prove Marlow an atheist, while other fragments have been used in an effort to prove he was a Catholic and still other evidence sees Marlowe as an Anglican in the service of the Queen. All of this conjecture has some basis in fact, but by the contradictory nature of the allegations, Marlowe could not possibly have been all three.
Recommended Citation
Leavitt, Harvey R., "A study of the religious position of Christopher Marlowe as influenced by the Erasmian humanistic tradition" (1968). Student Work. 3163.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/studentwork/3163
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Comments
A Thesis Presented to the Department of English and the Faculty of the Graduate College University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts University of Nebraska at Omaha. Copyright 1968 Harvey R. Leavitt.