In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked interest in unity and unification, and that in doing so it engages with a discourse of anxiety over social discord that was prominent in the 1580s and 1590s. Duxfield?s focus on unity as a theme throughout the plays provides a new lens through which to examine the place of Marlowe?s work in its cultural moment.