Word: marloweã
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...greatest hope we can entertain is that the new president does not effect any drastic changes at the University. Indeed, to ensure that she not interpret her mandate too widely, Dr. Faust would do well to heed the lesson of the similarly-named character in Marlowe??€™s tragedy—and not “practice more than heavenly power permits...
Though ordinarily the myth of Dido and Aeneas plays as tragedy or romance, with Christopher Marlowe??€™s verse and Neil Bartlett’s direction, Dido, which plays through March 26 at the Loeb Drama Center, becomes more of a psychological horror story. The play keeps the audience transfixed yet repelled by the demonic passions of its characters and the equally demonic gods deciding their fate...
...Marlowe??€™s script adheres closely to Virgil’s original text in the Aeneid, beginning with the political and sexual squabbles of the Olympian gods in the aftermath of the Trojan War, in which Venus, mother of Aeneas, favored the Trojans while Juno aided the Greeks...
...Marlowe??€™s play calls for Cupid to sing two unspecified songs, which composer Laura Jeppensen chose to arrange from Marlowe??€™s own poetry. Jeppensen’s otherworldly countertenor compositions create some of the most riveting moments of the play and capture its cold cruelty with lines such as: “Love is not full of pity as men say/… Then darkness falls; dark night is Cupid?...
...Bill Clinton and his Rolodex of potentially useful contacts dancing in our heads. Our crusades are personal and concrete; we know the dangers of idealism, and how little Don Quixote’s pasteboard visor offers. Our early modern literary avatar is not Cervantes’ daydreaming knight but Marlowe??€™s Dr. Faustus, who, demon-beguiled, weighs profit against loss and trades his soul for fame and money...
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