by Christopher Marlowe · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430370
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This Penguin Classics edition presents the complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, including 'Dido, Queen of Carthage', 'Tamburlaine the Great', 'Doctor Faustus', 'The Jew of Malta', 'Edward the Second', and 'The Massacre at Paris'. The book offers a comprehensive view of Marlowe's dramatic talent and his contribution to English theatre. With an introduction by J.B. Steane, this edition is ideal for students and lovers of classical theatre.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the preeminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the prurient tastes of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence, cruelty, and bloodshed.
