Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) and George Chapman (c. 1559 - 1634)
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- 2024
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About Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) and George Chapman (c. 1559 - 1634)
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?” The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague broke out in London, forcing the closure of the theatres. Leading playwrights took to penning languorously erotic poetry to make ends meet: so we have Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece - and Marlowe’s blazing masterpiece, Hero and Leander. Marlowe’s poem became more notorious than either of Shakespeare’s, due not only to its homophile provocations but also to the scandal attaching to every aspect of Marlowe’s brief life, violently ended in a mysterious brawl, leaving the poem in an unfinished state. The edition read here includes the wonderful continuation by George Chapman, a versatile playwright: tragedian as well as author of Jonsonian metropolitan comedies: in short, an all-round literary craftsman, whose Homer translation was famously admired by Keats. Chapman excels in extended allegory, but also in pithiest epigram – “Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams, That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.” All these playwrights come from the generation of grammar-school alumni raised on the secular curriculum of Latin poetry: above all, Ovid – the source of the story of Hero and Leander, and their “love-death” in the Hellespont. (Summary by Martin Geeson)
- Publisher
- ciesse
- Category
- arts · fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Sept 2024
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2024
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11 - Fifth Sestiad, part two
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08 - Fourth Sestiad, part one
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02 - First Sestiad, part two
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01 - First Sestiad, part one
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12 - Fifth Sestiad, part three
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10 - Fifth Sestiad, part one
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06 - Third Sestiad, part one
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03 - First Sestiad, part three
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07 - Third Sestiad, part two
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00 - Printer's Dedication
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09 - Fourth Sestiad, part two
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05 - Second Sestiad, part two
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14 - Sixth Sestiad, part one
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04 - Second Sestiad, part one
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15 - Sixth Sestiad, part two
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13 - Fifth Sestiad, part four
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