Originally published in 1955, as part of the English Literature for Schools series, this book contains the complete text of Christopher Marlowe's Edward the Second. An introduction and editorial notes are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Marlowe and English Renaissance drama.
A scholarly edition of works by Christopher Marlowe. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Dramatically compressing the reign of Edward II and enlivening the historical narrative with humour, romance, and horrific violence, Marlowe interrogates how the transgression of accepted codes of behaviour affects even those at the highest level of society. Kept off the stage for almost three hundred years because of its dramatization of explicit homosexual relationships, it has become increasingly popular with modern day readers and performed on stage and film to great acclaim. This student edition contains a completely new introduction by Stephen Guy-Bray, and offers students a useful and lively overview of recent criticism, an updated performance history paying greater attention to Derek Jarman's film, a background on the author and themes, as well as an updated bibliography and a fully annotated version of the playtext.
Dr Faustus is a highly popular text, this student edition uses the A text, widely excepted as the most authentic published edition. Fully revised by leading Renaissance scholar, Ros King, it contains a completely new Introduction containing the latest criticism and stage history and revised commentary and notes.
"Tamburlaine the Great" achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage, and it speaks to our own time too, when it has been the subject of numerous productions. Cunningham and Henderson illuminate the themes of the play to help make it accessible to today's readers. In the REVELS PLAYS STUDENT EDITIONS series.
This volume contains the two parts of "Tamburlaine the Great" and "The Massacre at Paris". The text is presented in old-spelling with a full critical commentary and textual annotation. An introduction to each work gives details of the play's sources, stage history, and text.
'A farce of terribly serious, even savage comic humour' T.S Eliot The Jew of Malta was arguably the most popular play of the Elizabethan era. This new student edition is freshly revised to incorporate the latest stage history and critical interpretations of the play.
This fully annotated version, with parts one and two in a single volume, takes account of the recent work on Marlowe. This text is related to contemporary theatrical conventions and conditions, and offers a critical account of the play closely attuned to a sense of theatre.
Doctor Faustus, a talented student in Wittenburg, Germany, wants to learn more than the university has to offer. Craving knowledge of things beyond his reach, Faustus turns to the study of magic, and makes a pact with the devil himself. This title offers activities designed to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English.
Based on the 1633 quarto, which is shown to be more authentic than most scholars had allowed. The text includes an account of the sources of the play, with discussion of Marlowe's knowledge of Mediterranean history, and consideration of Elizabethan Machiavellianism.
Texts in this series are written specifically to help students make the transition from GCSE to AS and onto A Level. This text was edited from performances in the time of Marlowe.
Christopher Marlowe's story of a Scythian shepherd who through using his brutality, lust for power and also his charm becomes a mighty conqueror and the King of Persia.
This series of "Oxford English Texts" presents Marlowe's plays in their original spellings, with full textual apparatus. The text of this play is derived from the 1633 Quarto, with an apparatus of emendations and a full commentary on sources, allusions and the meaning of difficult passages.
A critical edition of Marlowe's Edward II, this edition presents an old-spelling text which adheres to the first quarto. A full commentary and introduction contextualize the play and give an account of the relationship between the play, Marlowe's own age, and events which followed it.
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
A scholarly edition of works by Christopher Marlowe. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
As well as a fascinating chronology of Marlowe's life and works and extensive notes on the text, this edition includes a substantial and authoritative historical introduction to the play.
A scholarly edition of a play by Christopher Marlowe. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
One of the glories of Elizabethan drama: Marlowe's powerful retelling of the story of the learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Footnotes.
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