The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe Available to Purchase

Of Marlowe's six plays, Doctor Faustus is the one most often performed and studied. Tamburlane the Great (which has two parts), Edward II and The Jew of Malta make occasional and striking appearances on the stage but we seldom see productions of The Massacre at Paris and Dido, Queen of Carthage. (All were broadcast, however, on BBC Radio 3 in 1993, exactly 400 years after Marlowe's death, as Lois Potter reminds us in this Companion). Marlowe is important and fascinating for a number of reasons. Apart from their intrinsic qualities, his plays revealed the potential of blank verse...