From the Page to the Stage to a Place in History
Cambridge Companion to Marlowe
Cambridge University Press, 2004, 336 pages,
Literary Analysis
edited by Patrick Cheney, featuring the writing of James Bednarz, Ph.D.,
Professor of English, C.W. Post Campus

The Cambridge Companion to Marlowe” explores the scribe’s legacy as a pioneering innovator on the Elizabethan stage and in English poetry. The volume, comprised of individual essays covering Marlowe’s writing style, thematic tendencies and personal influences, boasts cogent analysis from sixteen of the world’s foremost scholars of English literature. Among them is C.W. Post professor James Bednarz, whose chapter compares and contrasts Marlowe’s achievements with those of several of his contemporaries, examining how their lives, creative output and fortunes were intertwined.