Christopher Marlowe | Author

About the Author

Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury, England on February 6, 1564. He received a B.A. in 1584 and an M.A. in 1587 from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His original plans for a religious career were put aside when he decided to become a poet and playwright. His earliest work was translating show more Lucan and Ovid from Latin into English. He translated Vergil's Aeneid as a play. His plays included Tamburlaine the Great, Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and Dido, Queen of Carthage. His unfinished poem Hero and Leander was published in 1598. In 1589, he and a friend killed a man, but were acquitted on a plea of self-defense. His political views were unorthodox, and he was thought to be a government secret agent. He was arrested in May 1593 on a charge of atheism. He was killed in a brawl in a Deptford tavern on May 30, 1593. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Image credit: Christopher Marlowe while Cambridge University

Series

Tamburlaine

Works by Christopher Marlowe

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Doctor Faustus (1994) 5,075 copies

The Complete Plays (1586) 1,681 copies

Edward II (1590) 587 copies

Doctor Faustus and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics) (1995) 557 copies

The Jew of Malta (1592) 522 copies

Tamburlaine (1587) 370 copies

Doctor Faustus [Norton Critical Editions] (2005) 267 copies

The Complete Poems and Translations (1971) 263 copies

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (1910) 261 copies

Complete Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) (2000) 113 copies

Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays (1966) 113 copies

Christopher Marlowe: Five Plays (1956) 112 copies

Hero and Leander [poem] (1598) 82 copies

The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage (1914) — Author — 58 copies

The Massacre at Paris (1985) 36 copies

Tragedias (1983) 35 copies

Marlowe's Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and Goethe's Faust: Part I (The World's Classics, 135) (1886) 35 copies

Plays (1950) 32 copies

Tamburlaine the Great Part 1 (1587) 25 copies

Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus: Text and Major Criticism (1966) — Author — 21 copies

Dr Faustus: the A-text (2018) 20 copies

Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated) (2011) 19 copies

Works of Christopher Marlowe (1976) 18 copies

Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 (2002) 18 copies

Dido Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris (1968) — Author — 17 copies

Marlowe's Plays and Poems. Everyman's Library No. 383 (1958) 14 copies

Teatro completo, La tragedia di Didone, regina di Cartagine - La prima parte di Tamerlano il Grande - La seconda parte… (2002) 13 copies

The Plays Of Christopher Marlowe. Everymans Library No. 383 (1929) 11 copies

Four Plays. Edited with an Introd. by Havelock Ellis. Copperplate Engravings by Albert Decaris; Mnochrome Devices Wood… (1966) 11 copies

The Plays of Christopher Marlowe (1962) 10 copies

Doctor Faustus: In a New Adaptation (Plays for Performance) (1991) 9 copies

Doctor Faustus, 1604 and 1616 (1968) 9 copies

Reading & Training : Christopher Marlowe : The tragedy of Dr Faustus [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 8 copies

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [poem] (2011) 6 copies

Teatro completo (2015) 6 copies

The life of Marlowe and The tragedy of Dido, queen of Carthage — Author — 5 copies

The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists Christopher Marlowe (1900) 5 copies

The complete works of Christopher Marlowe, volume I (1981) — Author — 5 copies

Oxford Student Texts: Christopher Marlowe: Dr Faustus (New Oxford Student Texts) (2008) 4 copies

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe v.1 (1998) 4 copies

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume II: Dr Faustus: Dr.Faustus Vol 2 (Oxford English Texts) (1990) 4 copies

Dr Faustus 1616 (The Malone Society MUP) (2019) 4 copies

Christopher MARLOWE: The Plays of Chritopher Marlowe 4 copies

L'ebreo di Malta. Edoardo II. La tragica storia del dottor Faustus 4 copies

Christopher MARLOWE: The Alchemist 4 copies

Teatro (1981) 4 copies

Tamburlaine the Great Part II (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition) (2008) 4 copies

Level 4: Dr Faustus (Pearson English Graded Readers) (2016) 3 copies

El judío de Malta; Eduardo II (Letras Universales) (Spanish Edition) (2003) 3 copies

Marlow's Tragedy of Edward the Second (1593) 3 copies

Christopher Marlowe Collection - Doctor Faustus, Dido Queen of Carthage, Edward the Second, Massacre at Paris,… (2019) 3 copies

Edward II: With Related Texts (Hackett Classics) (2015) 3 copies

The Dramatic Works (Selected) Ed. P Pinkerton. (1885) 3 copies

Selected Poems (in Plays and Poems) (1948) 3 copies

The Jew of Malta ; and the Massacre at Paris (1966) 2 copies

Poetry and the Drama (1916) 2 copies

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume V: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts 1 and 2; and The Massacre at Paris… (1998) 2 copies

Tamburlaine the Great Doctor Faustus (1923) 2 copies

Works of Christopher Marlowe. Edward the Second, Doctor Faustus, Hero and Leander, The Jew of Malta, Massacre at Paris,… (2009) 2 copies

Live with me and be my love [poem] 2 copies

Elizabethan Dramatists - Dr Faustus - Every Man In His Humour - Philaster (1903) 2 copies

The works of Christopher Marlowe Volume 3 (2012) 2 copies

The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume 2 (1981) — Author — 2 copies

Tragedias : Tamerlán El Grande / La trágica historia del doctor Fausto / Eduardo Segundo 1 copy

Ovid's Elegies 1 copy

The Christopher Marlowe BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven Full-Cast Productions Including Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine &… 1 copy

TEATRUL RENAȘTERII ENGLEZE (vol. I) 1 copy

The Complete Plays (English Library) by Christopher Marlowe (1969-09-01) 1 copy

On the Death of Sir Roger Manwood [poem] 1 copy

Dido, Queen of Carthage: Includes MLA Style Citations for Scholarly Secondary Sources, Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles… (2017) 1 copy

The Complete Harvard Classics 2020 Edition [newly updated] 1 copy

Marlowe, Shakespeare (The Harvard Classics, Deluxe Edition) 1 copy

Marlowe's Plays and Poems. Edited and introduced by M. R. Ridley 1 copy

Edward II [Theatre programme] 1 copy

The Plays of Christopher Marlowe Aka Christopher Marlowe : Complete Plays : The World's Classics 478 1 copy

The Complete Christopher Marlowe Collection 1 copy

Four Plays: Tamburlaine the Great Part the First; Tamburlaine the Great Part the Second; The Tragical History of Dr.… 1 copy

Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, in a special version 1 copy

Elizabethan Drama - Marlowe and Shakespeare (The Harvard Classics Series - Deluxe Edition, 62nd Printing) 1 copy

The tragicall history of D. Faustus as it hath been acted by the Right Honorable the Earle of Nottingham his servants :… 1 copy

Doctor Faustus ; Edward the Second ; The Jew of Malta 1 copy

Marlowe's Plays and Poems (1963) 1 copy

Poems and Plays 1 copy

Doctor Faustus. A Selection of Critical Essays. (1970) 1 copy

Сочинения 1 copy

Elizabethan Drama, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) (2016) 1 copy

Certain of Ovid's Elegies 1 copy

The complete works of Christopher Marlowe. 2, Edward II. Doctor Faustus. The first book of Lucan. Ovid's elegies. Hero… (1973) 1 copy

Büyük Timurlenk 1-2; Hasan Ali Yücel Klasikler Dizisi (2018) 1 copy

OBRA COMPLETA TEATRO Y POESIA 1 copy

Specimens of the earlier English poets 1 copy

Marlow's celebrated tragedy of the Jew of Malta in five acts (1818) 1 copy

A question of love 1 copy

The Shepherd and The Nymph 1 copy

The Life & Complete Works Of Christopher Marlowe 1 copy

Select Plays (1951) 1 copy

Marlowes Dramen Bd. 1 Das Massaker von Paris (1999) 1 copy

A SELECTION OF POEMS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE (1948) — Author — 1 copy

The Best Plays of Christopher Marlowe 1 copy

Marlowe, Christopher, Works 1 copy

Edward the Second. The Massacre at Paris - Εδουάρδος Β'. Η σφαγή των Παρισίων (1995) 1 copy

The Plays of Christopher Marlowe Everyman's Library - Poetry And The Drama (1950) 1 copy

Dramatic Works. Being: The Jew Of Malta, Edward The Second, Doctor Faustus, Lust's Dominion, Massacre Of Paris,… 1 copy

Dramen der Shakespearezeit : Robert 1 copy

Tamerlano: La tragica storia del dottor Fausto: L'ebreo di Malta 1 copy

The complete works of Christopher Marlowe, vol II: Edward II; Doctor Faustus; The first book of Lucan; Ovid's elegies;… 1 copy

La tragica istoria del Dottor Faust- Tamerlano il Grande 1 copy

Elizabethan Drama with introductions, notes and illustrations 1 copy

The Poems of Robert Greene and Christopher Marlowe (2000) 1 copy

Suffering and evil in the plays of Christopher Marlowe 1 copy

Tamburlaine the Great, Parts 1 & 2, and Massacre at Paris (2010) 1 copy

Marlowe's Edward The Second and Selections From Tamburlaine and the Poems 1 copy

The dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe. Selected. With a prefatory notice, biographical - Scholar's Choice… (2015) 1 copy

Due drammi 1 copy

Great Plays 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,267 copies

Amores + Ars amatoria + Medicamina faciei femineae + Remedia amoris [in translation] (1990) — Translator, some editions — 1,100 copies

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contributor — 1,055 copies

Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlow; Shakespeare (1909) — Contributor — 834 copies

The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Contributor, some editions — 626 copies

The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contributor — 548 copies

English Poetry, Volume I: From Chaucer to Gray (1910) — Contributor — 543 copies

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 450 copies

The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 (1992) — Contributor — 286 copies

Faust, Part I / Egmont / Hermann and Dorothea / Doctor Faustus (1909) 268 copies

The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contributor — 237 copies

English Renaissance Drama (2002) — Contributor — 225 copies

Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays (1777) — Contributor, some editions — 171 copies

The genius of the early English theater (1962) — Contributor — 167 copies

The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Contributor — 158 copies

The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contributor — 116 copies

Four Great Elizabethan Plays (1960) — Contributor — 73 copies

Five Plays of the English Renaissance (1983) — Contributor — 69 copies

Four Famous Tudor and Stuart Plays (1963) — Contributor — 53 copies

The Name of Love: Classic Gay Love Poems (1995) — Contributor — 51 copies

Treasury of the Theatre: From Aeschylus to Ostrovsky (1967) — Contributor — 48 copies

Elizabethan Drama: Eight Plays (1702) — Contributor — 48 copies

The chief Elizabethan dramatists, excluding Shakespeare (1911) — Contributor — 48 copies

Six Elizabethan Plays: 1585-1635 (1963) 46 copies

Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Contributor — 42 copies

Edward II [1991 film] (1991) — Original play — 41 copies

Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Contributor — 33 copies

Doctor Faustus [1967 film] (2004) — Original play — 23 copies

Classics of the Renaissance Theater: Seven English Plays (1969) — Contributor — 23 copies

Masters of British Literature, Volume A (2007) — Contributor — 21 copies

De Bello Civili Book 1 (1955) — Translator, some editions — 21 copies

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 1 (1974) — Contributor — 20 copies

Faust [1994 film] (2002) — Original play — 12 copies

The best Elizabethan plays (1890) — some editions — 11 copies

Edward II [1970 film] (1970) — Original play — 10 copies

Elizabethan Drama (1950) — Contributor — 10 copies

Oogst der tĳden : keur uit de werken van schrĳvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contributor — 10 copies

Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contributor — 8 copies

Routledge Anthology Early Modern Drama (2020) — Contributor — 7 copies

Early English Plays, 900-1600 (1928) — Contributor — 6 copies

Poetry anthology (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 6 copies

An introduction to drama (1951) — Contributor — 5 copies

Lust's Dominion, Or, The Lascivious Queen: A Tragedie - Primary Source Edition (2013) — Attributed author — 4 copies

British Drama: Ten Plays from the Middle of the Fourteenth Century to the End of the Nineteenth (1929) — Contributor — 3 copies

Ode to Boy: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature, Volume One: From Antiquity Through the Eighteenth… (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies

The Ancient British drama, in three volumes — Contributor — 2 copies

The Art of Love: Together with the Elegies Translated by Christopher Marlowe — Translator, some editions — 2 copies

To You With Love: A Treasury of Great Romantic Literature (1969) — Contributor — 2 copies

Best of Classic Christian Literature for 99 Cents - EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY by Mark Twain ... EVE'S DIARY by Mark… — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Marlowe, Christopher
Other names: Marlowe, Kit
Marley, Kit
Birthdate: 1564-02-26 (baptized)
Date of death: 1593-05-30
Burial location: St. Nicholas's Church, Deptford, London, UK
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Country (for map): England, UK
Birthplace: Canterbury, Kent, England
Place of death: Deptford, Kent, England
Cause of death: murder
Places of residence: Canterbury, Kent, England (birth)
Deptford, London, England
Rheims, France
Education: The King's School, Canterbury
University of Cambridge (BA | 1584 | Corpus Christi)
University of Cambridge (MA | 1587 | Corpus Christi)
Occupations: playwright
poet
translator
spy (allegedly)
Relationships: Shakespeare, William (friend)
Short biography: Elizabethan theatre's number two writer (after Shakespeare), Christopher Marlowe was an innovator who brought the blank verse to the stage. Marlowe is now best remembered for his plays, like Doctor Faustus and Tamburlaine, as well as his assassination at an early age, which may have been related to his working as a spy and which remains one of the big unsolved mysteries of the literary world.

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Edward II (Drama Classics) by Christopher Marlowe

read while listening to an audiobook, made it easier but still only have half a clue what they were talking about

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highlandcow | 8 other reviews | Mar 13, 2024 |

Dr. Faustus (Dover Thrift Editions) by Christopher Marlowe

It is recognisable for its influence, and the "don't aspire beyond the human limits of knowledge" is a tale as old as time itself, but this still holds up magnificently, which I wasn't expecting.
A play written in blank verse with the theme of a repentant God, an unrepentant Devil, and a human having sold his soul to the latter in exchange for knowledge and relief from boredom sounds (and is) exciting. It helps that Marlowe keeps it simple, doesn't get too preachy, and fills up the gaps nicely even with a foregone conclusion.
TL;DR - don't sell your soul to the Devil, with a capital D - who would have guessed?… (more)

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SidKhanooja | 71 other reviews | Sep 1, 2023 |

Hero and Leander (Wildside Classics) by Christopher Marlowe

Darn couplets. Ugh. Rhyme, rhyme, rhyme--clang, clang, clang.

Marlowe's beginning was much better than Chapman's ending, but I guess Chapman grew on me.

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judeprufrock | 1 other review | Jul 4, 2023 |