Christopher Marlowe, the Complete Plays: Dido, Queen of Carthage; Tamburlaine the Great; Doctor Faustus; the Jew of Malta; Edward the Second; the Massacre at Paris (English Library) - Softcover

Marlowe, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140430377 ISBN 13: 9780140430370

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1973

Synopsis

The Complete Plays

About this title

Book Description:

Their texts fully restored by recent scholarship, Marlowe's astonishing works can now be appreciated as originally written. For the first time, this edition boasts the complete plays - including two versions of Doctor Faustus.

About the Author:

Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) was educated at Cambridge and soon established his reputation as a playwright. Away from the stage, Marlowe was a man who courted danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist. He was murdered at the age of 29 in a tavern in Deptford.
Robert Lindsey is Associate Aditor of the journal Medieval and Renaissance Drama in English. Frank Romany teaches English at St John's College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140430377
• ISBN 13: 9780140430370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Steane J.