The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe (Paperback)

from antiquary

Tamburlaine and Dr. Faustus are unquestionably great; Jew of Malta, though not PC, is fascinatingly grotesque. The rest, to me, are adequate

from m.a.harding

The play that rises above all his contemporaries is The Jew of Malta. Such exquisite bad taste. Unlike The Merchant of Venice, this is no easy acceptance of the mores of the time. Savage and bleak, Marlowe shows we are all as bad. But somehow this is cheering. A sort of Sam Beckett play but about...

from LisaMaria_C

Marlowe was born the same year as Shakespeare, but died young, before he'd reached the age of thirty. So an edition of Marlowe complete plays only contains seven works, while the Shakespeare canon numbers 38 plays. When Marlowe was murdered on May 30, 1593, Shakespeare was thought to have written...

from Marse

Having watched the first session of the TV show "Will" about William Shakespeare, I've become intrigued by the character of Christopher Marlowe, as presented in the show. Of course the TV show is pretty much fiction, as so much about William Shakespeare's life is unknown, but the era, the intrigu...

from WillyMammoth

Christopher Marlowe was an exact contemporary of William Shakespeare, born in the very same year and employed in the very same craft--chiefly as a dramatist, but also as a poet. Marlowe, however, never attained the renown of his more famous counterpart, partly because he died in a bar fight at th...