Mathew R. Martin
MRM
Dr. Mathew R. Martin is Full Professor at Brock University, Canada, and Director of
Brock’s PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities. He is the author of Between
Theatre and Philosophy (2001) and Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays
of Christopher Marlowe (2015) and co-editor, with his colleague James Allard, of
Staging Pain, 1500-1800: Violence and Trauma in British Theatre
(2009). For Broadview Press he has edited Christopher Marlowe’s Edward the
Second (2010), Jew of Malta (2012), Doctor Faustus: The B-Text (2013), and Tamburlaine the Great Part
One and Part Two (2014). For Revels Editions he has edited George Peele’s David and Bathsheba (2018) and Marlowe’s The Massacre at
Paris (forthcoming). He has published two articles of textual criticism on the
printed texts of Marlowe’s plays:
Inferior Readings: The Transmigration of(Early Theatre 17.2 [December 2014]), and (on the political inflections of the shifts in punctuation in the early editions of the play)Materialin Tamburlaine the Great
Accidents Happen: Roger Barnes’s 1612 Edition of Marlowe’s Edward the Second(Early Theatre 16.1 [June 2013]). His latest editing project is a Broadview edition of Robert Greene’s Selimus. He is also writing two books: one on psychoanalysis and literary theory and one on the language of non-violence in Elizabethan drama in the late 1580s and 1590s.
