Abstract
This essay concerns Shakespeare’s contemporary Christopher Marlowe and an activity which he never, in his life, actually practised. In spite of that, the activity is central to critical constructions both of his career shape and his psychological biography. It is one which he frequently invokes, and his works imagine it with a sort of vivid precision in spite of its impossibility. In what follows I explore Marlowe’s ideas of flying.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Communities: Printers, Playwrights, Parallels |
| Editors | lisa hopkins |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication status | Submitted - 15 Dec 2025 |