Name: Hero y Leandro (in Spanish)
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Author: Christopher Marlowe
ISBN: 9788437636221

Type

Physical Book

Author

Christopher Marlowe

Publisher

Catedra

Collection

Letras Universales

Year

2017

Language

Spanish

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.00 x 11.00

ISBN13

9788437636221

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Hero y Leandro (in Spanish)"

Christopher Marlowe ha pasado a la historia literaria por su faceta de dramaturgo. Sin embargo, lo que más impresionó, tanto a sus coetáneos como a sus inmediatos seguidores, no fueron sus dramas, sino, antes bien, su poesía. Su producción poética es de importancia capital dentro de su obra: escrita por un hombre joven, con conocimientos universitarios, de gran ambición y acaso no poca arrogancia, deseoso de experimentar en su escritura con asuntos y técnicas que solo se habían ensayado previamente de modo tangencial. " Hero y Leandro " conoció un inmenso éxito incluso desde antes de su publicación. Fue imitado y parodiado, y los poetas amorosos lo conocían de memoria, con alusiones a su mordaz voluptuosidad. Marlowe se propuso un reto formidable: tratar un mito muy conocido y difundido de manera distintiva y original. Para ello, transforma el tono elevado y triunfante del poema de Museo en un ambiente mucho más perturbador y ambivalente. Al tiempo que presta atención a la dimensión luctuosa de la historia, el texto marloviano no se refocila en ella, sino que desarrolla las relaciones personales de sus protagonistas, dejando sitio para lo cómico y lo propio de un romance juvenil, esto es, para los riesgos, las limitaciones y las decepciones del amor.

Christopher Marlowe

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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, and translator. His life remains a great mystery surrounded by all sorts of legends. He was born in Canterbury the same year as William Shakespeare into a prosperous middle-class family. He studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1584 and completed his Master's in 1587. Initially, Cambridge authorities were reluctant to grant him the degree because they suspected he had converted to Catholicism, but the Queen's Privy Council intervened on his behalf, emphasizing that Marlowe "had rendered good service to Her Majesty" and had been working for the "benefit of the country." However, the exact nature of the service he provided to the crown is unknown. After his years in Cambridge, Marlowe moved to London where he led a dark and turbulent life (he had a couple of run-ins with the law and had a bad reputation) while trying to make his way as a playwright.

He is the author of seven plays and an incomplete poem: the two parts of Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, Doctor Faustus, Dido, Queen of Carthage, and The Massacre at Paris, as well as the poem Hero and Leander. In 1593, at just twenty-nine years old, he was arrested and accused of being an atheist. He did not go to prison, and before his case was judged, he died during a brawl in a tavern in Deptford.

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