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Title: The Complete Plays (Penguin English Library) by Christopher Marlowe ISBN: 0-14-043037-7 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1969 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I just had a brief comment. I don't consider myself an expert on Elizabethan era literature, but I've read a fair amount of Shakespeare and a number of the other authors of the period, and I have to say I was quite impressed with Marlowe. He certainly deserves to be better appreciated than he is. One of the lines from Richard III has stuck with me. I think I have it more or less correct, and it was this: "...and as for the multitude, they are like sparks--caught up in the embers of their poverty." You have to like an author who can write like that, but unfortunately he's been so overshadowed by the great Will that he doesn't get as much attention as he should. Anyway, by way of doing what I can, however, modest, to increase Marlowe's popularity, I'd like to say he's a damn good playwright, and that I have no qualms about throwing my own not inconsiderable bulk behind his reputation.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not quite Shakespeare, but good--great Compliation
Comment: The Complete Plays includes all of Marlowe's plays (well, obviously.) As a bonus it includes the rather fragmentory Massacre at Paris (which many critics theorize is a corupt, unfinished, or damaged text) in a scene division only format and both editions of Doctor Faustus.
Marlowe's plays, while not on the same level as Shakespeare's best, are far and away superior to any other Renaisance era dramatist (See also, Thomas Kyd, Ben Johnson, or Richard Wharfinger--if you can find him hehe.)
The best thing about Marlowe's plays is the level of respect for the audience. Judgement of the characters is (for the most part) left to the reader. Tamburlaine can be viewed as hero and/or villian.
And, it being Renaisance drama, there are some spectacular death scenes--Edward II's anal cruxifiction, Brabas's boiling alive, Faustus's dismemberment, and the Admiral's hanging/shooting to name a few.
One complaint, and this is really more of a preference, but the textual notes are in endnote format, rather than footnote format, and they're not numbered notes--all of which makes finding latin translations a little more time consuming.
But, for fans of the genre, this is the way to go.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good accessible edition
Comment: This is a generally good and easily available, inexpensive edition of Marlowe's plays. My only reservation about it is Steane's edition of Dr. Faustus. He makes the worst of both major texts, taking the general outline from the 1616 text but throwing in a lot of corrupt scraps from the 1604 edition for the clown scenes. I would advise anyone who wants to read Dr. Faustus to look elsewhere. I'm convinced that the 1604 version is on the whole a corrupt and truncated version of the play, but if you prefer it you might look into the Folger Library edition. If on the other hand you would rather read the play more or less as I think Marlowe wrote it, try the Signet edition edited by Sylvan Barnet.
The other plays present no major textual problems (except for The Massacre at Paris, which is pretty hopeless) and this is a fine place to meet them.
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Title: Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems by Mark Thornton Burnett ISBN: 0460879952 Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl ISBN: 0226580245 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.20 |
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Title: The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) by John Webster, Rene Weis ISBN: 0192834533 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Tis Pity She's a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover's Melancholy, the Broken Heart, Perkin Warbeck (Oxford World's Classics) by John Ford, Marion Lomax ISBN: 0192834495 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life by Constance Brown Kuriyama ISBN: 0801439787 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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