2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Christopher Marlowe and the Cambridge University Connection
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14510547
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | Ferris University |
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Principal Investigator |
IDE Arata Ferris University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部・英文学科, 教授 (30193460)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | English Drama / Elizabethan Drama / English Renaissance / Theater / University Wits / Biography / Christopher Marlowe |
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| Research Abstract |
Marlowe's two-facedness, a "kind Kit" and an ambitious traitor, seems to arise from the fact that most poor scholars had to depend on the closeness/closedness of the collegiate community. It was their relationship with a beneficial patron and their intricate friendships with each other which enabled them to survive their difficult lives. It is no wonder that this nourished a tight-knit network of friendship and solidarity among the members of this community, a typical case of which we can observed in Marlowe's relationship with William Austen in the Act Books of the vice-chancellor's Court. (Austen was a scholar maintained by the revenue of Eastbridge Hospital in Canterbury. He came from Canterbury and might have obtained an education at one of the free schools in the Province of Canterbury. Although his matriculation as pensioner was during Easter of 1578,he received his scholarship in 1580. He was, therefore, 2 or 3 years senior to Marlowe.) At the same time, it is possible that this closeness/closedness would easily arouse hostility against a breakaway faction which threatened the unity of this small society. Considering the career choice of the economically oriented scholars from Canterbury against a backdrop of zealous or jealous scholars from Norfolk united in reverence fro their great benefactors, it is not difficult to imagine the nature of the friction which led to the circulation of the defamatory rumor about Marlowe. It is likely that the slanderous representation of Marlowe was derived from a rumor generated by hostile contemporaries at Corpus Christi College.
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