Date of Award
5-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Committee Member
Dr. Elizabeth Rivlin, Committee Chair
Committee Member
Dr. William Stockton
Committee Member
Dr. Andrew Lemons
Abstract
This paper addresses the role that Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II plays in the establishing and expanding of an early modern public sphere. By examining the ways that power is earned, and wielded in the play, Marlowe demonstrates an economy of cultural credit that operates in both the financial and the socio/political spheres of public life in early modern England. Marlowe applies the logic of that economy beyond the realm of the common people and subjects the historical monarch to the same parameters of judgement that flourished in society, drawing parallels with the currently reigning Elizabeth I, and opening up a discourse that reexamines the markers of credit, power and birth-ordered hierarchies.
Recommended Citation
Kuebler, Jane E., "Edward II: Negotiations of Credit in the Early Modern Public Sphere" (2018). All Theses. 2856.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2856