Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe
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Features:* beautiful images relating to Marlowe’s life, locations and works* annotated introductions to the plays and other works, giving valuable contextual information* ALL the plays, each with its own contents table – navigate easily between acts and scenes – find that special quotation quickly!* even includes the apocryphal play LUST'S DOMINION, available nowhere else* contains both versions (A & B) of DOCTOR FAUSTUS * ALL the poetry, with excellent formatting* EVEN includes the SOURCES for some of the plays, allowing you to explore Marlowe’s inspiration* INCLUDES no less than 4 biographies – explore the playwright’s mysterious life from multiple sources across history* the SPECIAL literary criticism section boasts four works that examine Marlowe’s contribution to literature* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres* includes a front MASTER table of contents, allowing easy navigation around Marlowe’s immense oeuvre* features a special 'Glossary of Elizabethan Language', which will aid your comprehension of difficult words and phrases* UPDATED with corrected Edward II text* UPDATED with modernised DIDO text, in response to a customer's feedbackWere it not for his untimely death, Christopher Marlowe was destined to become one of the world’s greatest writers, with some believing he would have even eclipsed his contemporary Shakespeare. Marlowe was an enigmatic character - part poet, scholar, soldier, spy and tavern brawler - and his legend continues to elude historians. This eBook provides readers with a new and erudite edition of Marlowe’s works, offering every play, poem, translation and much more. Now you can truly own all of Marlowe’s works and a range of BONUS material on your Kindle, and all in ONE well-organised file.CONTENTSThe PlaysDIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGETHE SOURCE TEXT OF DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGETAMBURLAINE THE GREAT PART 1TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT PART 2THE JEW OF MALTADOCTOR FAUSTUS (A TEXT)DOCTOR FAUSTUS (B TEXT)EDWARD IITHE SOURCE TEXT OF EDWARD IITHE MASSACRE AT PARISThe Apocryphal PlayLUST'S DOMINIONThe PoetryTRANSLATION OF BOOK ONE OF LUCAN'S THE PHARSALIATRANSLATION OF OVID'S ELEGIESTHE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVETHE NYMPH'S REPLY TO THE SHEPHERD BY SIR WALTER RALEIGHHERO AND LEANDERFRAGMENTIN OBITUM HONORATISSIMI VIRI, ROGERI MANWOOD, MILITIS, QUÆSTORII REGI- NALIS CAPITALIS BARONISDIALOGUE IN VERSEEPIGRAMS BY J.D.The CriticismEXTRACTS FROM ‘THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’ BY SIDNEY LEETHE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ON SHAKSPERE'S EARLIER STYLE BY A. W. VERITYEXTRACT FROM ‘A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE’ BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNESOME NOTES ON THE BLANK VERSE OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE BY T.S. ELIOTThe BiographiesMARLOWE AND HIS ASSOCIATES BY JOHN H. INGRAMTHE MUSES' DARLING BY CHARLES NORMANCHRISTOPHER MARLOWE - OUTLINES OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS BY J. G. LEWISTHE DEATH OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE BY J. LESLIE HOTSON