The International Christopher Marlowe

这项奖学金提议的核心是一个雄心勃勃的愿望，即把伊丽莎白时代的诗人和剧作家克里斯托弗·马洛视为一位国际政治思想家或欧洲政治思想家，而不是一位主要回应国内背景和理论争论的英国作家。因此，该奖学金支持一项研究计划，该计划将马洛的工作放在欧洲政治思想创新和变化的背景下进行，主要是从大约1572年到1593年马洛去世的欧洲政治思想的创新和变化(更多细节见《支持案例》)。推动计划中的研究的是一种基于书史和接受研究以及对政治文本的解读的方法论，它有能力重振目前关于马洛的学术，并挑战早期现代戏剧与政治思想联系起来的方式的一些方面。该项目将适时地强调一个开创性人物的欧洲维度，这些人物的叙事是我们的，也就是英国的民族文学。截至2013年12月的6个月期间，包括埃克塞特大学授予的研究假，将为研究金涵盖的研究计划奠定基础；它包括一份向知名学术出版商(可能是牛津大学出版社)提交的研究专著(包括2章草稿)的提案。在第一阶段，研究金将支持一项为期一年的全日制研究计划，在一本专著的剩余章节中达到高潮，该专著追溯到1593年大约20年期间英国对欧洲政治思想的接受，并将马洛的工作放在这份材料的背景下。第二个部分时间阶段为六个月(至2015年9月)，将专门用于传播、影响和与领导有关的活动。这些活动包括在埃克塞特大学举行的为期两天的“国际马洛”会议，以及参观欧洲大学和/或学术组织的研讨会。在影响方面，他们还为德文郡地区的学校举办了一些由专业戏剧公司“辉煌制作”举办的研讨会，这些研讨会将创造性地探索马洛戏剧与政治思想之间的互动。其中一些研讨会的视频片段将被上传到一个宣传该项目的网站上，其中将包括专门介绍会议和马洛时代的政治思想的页面，并包括马洛戏剧中阐明奖学金背后思想的五个剪辑场景。在研究金开始时，将任命一名研究助理来帮助协调影响和传播方案。拟议的一系列研究、传播和领导活动将促进我的职业发展，从一个有前途的早期职业学者，2011年初被任命为我的第一个研究职位，最近出版了第一本专著(战争自由和凯撒：牛津大学，2013年)。它还将促进我对政治思想与富有想象力的或模仿的文学之间的复杂交集、接受以及早期现代英格兰与国外之间的文学和智力联系的研究兴趣，目的是在未来设计大量的资助和合作项目。

At the heart of this fellowship proposal is an ambitious desire to reconceive the Elizabethan poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe as an 'international' or European political thinker, as opposed to an English writer responding largely to domestic contexts and to polemic over theory. Accordingly, the fellowship supports a programme of research that places Marlowe's work in the context of innovations and changes in European political thought, principally as received in England, from ca. 1572 to Marlowe's death in 1593 (see 'Case for Support' for further details). Driving the planned research is a methodology grounded in book history and reception studies, as well as the interpretation of political texts, which has the capacity to reinvigorate current scholarship on Marlowe and challenge aspects of the way early modern drama has been linked to political ideas. In a timely way the project will emphasise the European dimension to a seminal figure in narratives of 'our', that is English, national literature. A 6 month period ending December 2013 and including research leave granted by the University of Exeter will lay the platform for the programme of research covered by the fellowship; it includes a proposal for a research monograph (including 2 draft chapters) to an established academic publisher, probably Oxford University Press. In its first phase, the fellowship will support a 1-year programme of full-time research, culminating in the remaining chapters of a monograph tracing the English reception of European political thought over a roughly twenty year period to 1593 and placing Marlowe's work in the context of this material. A second, part-time phase of six months (until September 2015) will be devoted to dissemination, impact and leadership-related activities. These include a two-day conference on 'The International Marlowe' at the University of Exeter and a seminar tour of European universities and/or academic organisations. They also incorporate, on the impact side, a number of workshops run by a professional drama company, 'Splendid Productions', for schools in the Devon region, which will creatively explore the interaction between Marlowe's drama and political ideas. Video footage of some of these workshops will be uploaded to a website publicising the project, which will include pages devoted to the conference, to political thought in the age of Marlowe, and include five edited scenes from Marlowe's plays illuminating the thinking behind the fellowship. At the start of the fellowship, a research assistant will be appointed to help co-ordinate the impact and dissemination programme. The proposed array of research, dissemination and leadership actitivies will further my career development from a promising early career scholar, appointed to my first research post in early 2011 and with a recently published first monograph (War Liberty and Caesar: Oxford, 2013). It will also further my research interests in the complex intersections between political ideas and imaginative or mimetic literature; in reception; and in the literary and intellectual links between early modern England and abroad, with the aim of devising substantial funded and collaborative projects in the future.