Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

by Christopher Marlowe

Book Overview

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.
Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192834452
• ISBN13: 9780192834454
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.7" x 5.1"