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Christopher Marlowe by Harold Bloom (Editor, Introduction by)ISBN: 9780791063576
Publication Date: 2001-12-01
User's guide -- A comprehensive biography of the playwright -- Detailed plot summaries of each play -- Extracts from important critical essays that examine important aspects of each work -- A complete bibliography of the writer's plays -- A list of critical works about the playwright and his works -- An index of themes and ideas covered in the plays
A Preface to Marlowe by Stevie SimkinISBN: 9781138166660
Publication Date: 2017-02-03
This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe's work. It includes thorough investigations of his major plays, Tamburlaine, Edward II, The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus as well as a full discussion of The Massacre at Paris, Dido Queen of Carthage and all his extant poetry. Analysis of Faustus takes full account of both A and B text versions.
Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero by Christopher BondISBN: 9781611494655
Publication Date: 2013-03-14
This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early-modern England: the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines the relationship between the poems' primary heroes, Arthur and the Son, who are godlike, virtuous, and powerful, and the secondary heroes, Redcrosse and Adam, who are human, fallible, and weak.
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe; David Scott KastanISBN: 9780393977547
Publication Date: 2005-02-11
This edition provides newly edited texts of both the 1604 (A-Text) and 1616 (B-Text) versions of the play, each with detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" includes a generous selection from Marlowe's main source, The Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus, along with contemporary writings on magic and religion (including texts by Agrippa, Calvin, and Perkins) that establish the play's intellectual background.
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe by Patrick Cheney (Editor)Publication Date: 2004-07-15
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, first published in 2004, provides a full introduction to one of the great pioneers of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English poetry. It recalls that Marlowe was an inventor of the English history play (Edward II) and of Ovidian narrative verse (Hero and Leander), as well as being author of such masterpieces of tragedy and lyric as Doctor Faustus and 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'.
Christopher Marlowe: poet & spy by Park HonanISBN: 9780198186953
Publication Date: 2006-01-05
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous 'putative portrait' of Marlowe at Cambridge.
Doctor Faustus: a critical guide by Sara Munson Deats (Editor)ISBN: 9781441188571
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe's most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arousing violent critical controversy. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, surveying notable stage productions from its initial performance in 1594 to the present and including TV, audio and cinematic versions.
Hidden Mutualities: Faustian themes from gnostic origins to the postcolonial by Michael MitchellISBN: 9781429480741
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
PART I: POTENT ARTS; 1. The Gnostic/Hermetic Tradition: Simon Magus to Faust; 2. Standing and Falling: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; 3. Ariel Magic: Shakespeare's The Tempest; PART II: OVERGROWN PATHS; 4. Renaissance and Enlightenment: Kepler and Fludd; 5. Rationality and Romanticism: Newton and Blake; 6. Rediscoveries: Kipling, Yeats, Crowley, Pauli and Jung.
Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the art of tantalization by Fred B. TromlyISBN: 9781442678545
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Playing with Desire takes a new approach to Christopher Marlowe's body of writing, replacing the view of Marlovian desire as heroic aspiration with a far less uplifting model. Fred B. Tromly shows that in Marlowe's writing desire is a response to calculated, teasing enticement, ultimately a sign not of power but of impotence.
Christopher Marlowe: poet & spy by Park HonanISBN: 9781429488426
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Park Honan's exciting new biography highlights Christopher Marlowe's dangerous career as a part-time spy, as well as his evolving relations, especially with Shakespeare. We see how his creative imagination helped to save him even among thugs, and brought him a brief, dazzling success. His street fights, friendships, so-called homosexuality, talk, and personal habits are in close focus. The book includes an ongoing murder-mystery, and sheds new light on Marlowe's killer and the fight.
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Christopher Marlowe by 
A Preface to Marlowe by 
Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero by 
Doctor Faustus by 
The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe by 
Christopher Marlowe: poet & spy by 
Doctor Faustus: a critical guide by 
Hidden Mutualities: Faustian themes from gnostic origins to the postcolonial by 
Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: lives, stage and page by 
Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the art of tantalization by 