Introduction / Brian Morris -- The Jew of Malta in the theatre / James L. Smith -- 'Unstable Proteus': The tragedy of Dido the queen of Carthage / Brian Gibbons -- Marlowe and the 'comic distance' / J.R. Mulryne and Stephen Fender -- Marlowe and early Shakespeare / Harold F. Brooks -- Marlowe and Brecht / Michael Hattaway -- Comic method in Hero and Leander / Brian Morris -- 'Snakes leape by verse' / Roma Gill -- Marlowe's naturalism / D.J. Palmer -- Marlowe the orthodox / W. Moelwyn Merchant
