Marlowe's Plays And Poems
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Christopher Marlowe — playwright, poet, spy, and Shakespeare's greatest contemporary — stands as one of the most electrifying figures of the Elizabethan age, and this authoritative collection brings together the full power of his dramatic and lyrical genius in a single definitive volume. Edited and introduced by M. R. Ridley, Lecturer in English at Bedford College, University of London, the anthology presents Marlowe's towering dramatic works — including Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, and Edward II — alongside his celebrated poetry, offering readers a comprehensive portrait of a writer who fundamentally transformed the English stage. Marlowe's verse thunders with what Ben Jonson called Marlowe's mighty line — a form of blank verse so commanding and innovative that it reshaped the possibilities of dramatic language for generations to come. Ridley's scholarly yet accessible editorial apparatus illuminates the historical and literary contexts that produced these works, drawing out the themes of ambition, transgression, power, and desire that pulse beneath the surface of every play and poem. For students, scholars, and lovers of Renaissance literature alike, this collection is an essential encounter with a voice that burned too bright and too briefly — leaving behind a legacy that continues to haunt the margins of literary history.
Author: M. R. Ridley
Format: Hardback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Christopher Marlowe — playwright, poet, spy, and Shakespeare's greatest contemporary — stands as one of the most electrifying figures of the Elizabethan age, and this authoritative collection brings together the full power of his dramatic and lyrical genius in a single definitive volume. Edited and introduced by M. R. Ridley, Lecturer in English at Bedford College, University of London, the anthology presents Marlowe's towering dramatic works — including Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, and Edward II — alongside his celebrated poetry, offering readers a comprehensive portrait of a writer who fundamentally transformed the English stage. Marlowe's verse thunders with what Ben Jonson called Marlowe's mighty line — a form of blank verse so commanding and innovative that it reshaped the possibilities of dramatic language for generations to come. Ridley's scholarly yet accessible editorial apparatus illuminates the historical and literary contexts that produced these works, drawing out the themes of ambition, transgression, power, and desire that pulse beneath the surface of every play and poem. For students, scholars, and lovers of Renaissance literature alike, this collection is an essential encounter with a voice that burned too bright and too briefly — leaving behind a legacy that continues to haunt the margins of literary history.