Hero's Afterlife: Hero and Leander and 'lewd unmannerly verse' in the late Seventeenth Century.

Early Modern Literary Studies, January 1st, 2007

Hero's Afterlife: Hero and Leander and lewd unmannerly verse' in the late Seventeenth Century

Roy Booth

Royal Holloway

roy.booth@btinternet.com

Booth, Roy. "Hero's Afterlife: Hero and Leander and lewd unmannerly verse' in the late Seventeenth Century". Early Modern Literary Studies 12.3 (January, 2007) 4.1-24 .

Stephen Orgel's edition of the Complete Poems and Translations of Christopher Marlowe hinted at the translatability' of Marlowe's major poem when he (perhaps over-generously) included Henry Petowe's re-deployment of the characters as protagonists in a sub-Sidneian chivalric verse...

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