| Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization Examining Marlowe's plays and his major poems, Tromly uses Renaissance mythography, a study of literary sources (especially Ovid), performance history, and social history to demonstrate the centrality of the Tantalus myth to Marlowe's imagination. Tromly Fred B. : Fred B. Tromly is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Trent University. |