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There are 16 critical essays on Hero and Leander (poem).
Critical Essays on Hero and Leander (poem)
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 Critical Essay by Marion Campbell
11,348 words, approx. 38 pages
 In the following essay, Campbell argues that to read Marlowe and Chapman's sections of Hero and Leander “as parts of a single whole is to obscure the shape and significance of Marlowe's poem.”
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Critical Essay by John Leonard
8,799 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Leonard underscores Leander's sexual coercion of Hero in Hero and Leander.
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Critical Essay by Joanne Altieri
7,134 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Altieri assesses Marlowe's achievements with Hero and Leander and considers Chapman's continuation of the poem.
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Critical Essay by Claude Summers
6,783 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following essay, Summers identifies the central theme of Hero and Leander as “the utter arbitrariness of desire, a perspective that is pointedly at variance with the conventional morality of Marlowe's society and its dominant constructions of sexuality and that has tragic as well as comic potential.”
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Critical Essay by S. Ann Collins
6,679 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Collins maintains that the mythological episodes of Hero and Leander function “both as indicators of the poem's tone and as emblematic parallels of segments of the narrative.”
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Critical Essay by Erich Segal
6,649 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Segal contrasts Marlowe's and Luis de Góngora y Argote's versions of the Hero and Leander story.
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Critical Essay by Georgia E. Brown
6,598 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Brown delineates the central thematic concerns of Hero and Leander and assesses its influence on the literary culture of the 1590s.
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Critical Essay by Judith Haber
6,284 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Haber offers a stylistic analysis of Marlowe's treatment of desire in Hero and Leander, contending that the poem “refuses the comforts of a conventional, mastering narrative.”
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Critical Essay by Louis L. Martz
4,811 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following essay, Martz differentiates Marlowe's Hero and Leander from George Chapman's continuation of the poem.
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Bieman
4,180 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Bieman argues that Hero and Leander “offers many hilarious moments through incongruities of situation and language.”
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Critical Essay by Paul D. Miller
3,474 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Miller considers the relevance of the mythological elements in Hero and Leander.
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