Marlowe: Tamburlaine The Great, I & Ii; Doctor Faustus; The Jew Of Malta; Edward The Second
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Few playwrights have burned as brilliantly and briefly as Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan genius whose thunderous verse and audacious imagination forged the very template upon which Shakespeare would build his empire. This essential collection gathers four of Marlowe's most towering dramatic works — Tamburlaine the Great Parts I & II, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and Edward the Second — presenting the full range of a writer who turned the stage into an arena for ambition, damnation, and the intoxicating lust for power. Edited with scholarly precision by Havelock Ellis and introduced by J. A. Symonds, this Mermaid Dramabooks edition situates Marlowe's genius within the broader arc of Renaissance theatre, illuminating the playwright's revolutionary use of blank verse — a form he virtually invented for the English stage — and his unflinching portraits of overreachers who dare to challenge the limits of God and mortality. From the world-conquering fury of Tamburlaine to Faustus's fatal bargain with Mephistopheles, Marlowe's protagonists are consumed by an appetite that resonates as powerfully today as it did in sixteenth-century London. For any serious student of English drama, this volume is nothing less than indispensable.
Author: Christopher Marlowe (Edited By Havelock Ellis, Introduction By J. A. Symonds)
Format: Paperback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few playwrights have burned as brilliantly and briefly as Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan genius whose thunderous verse and audacious imagination forged the very template upon which Shakespeare would build his empire. This essential collection gathers four of Marlowe's most towering dramatic works — Tamburlaine the Great Parts I & II, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and Edward the Second — presenting the full range of a writer who turned the stage into an arena for ambition, damnation, and the intoxicating lust for power. Edited with scholarly precision by Havelock Ellis and introduced by J. A. Symonds, this Mermaid Dramabooks edition situates Marlowe's genius within the broader arc of Renaissance theatre, illuminating the playwright's revolutionary use of blank verse — a form he virtually invented for the English stage — and his unflinching portraits of overreachers who dare to challenge the limits of God and mortality. From the world-conquering fury of Tamburlaine to Faustus's fatal bargain with Mephistopheles, Marlowe's protagonists are consumed by an appetite that resonates as powerfully today as it did in sixteenth-century London. For any serious student of English drama, this volume is nothing less than indispensable.