This is also the first biography to explore in detail Marlowe's relations with fellow playwrights such as Kyd and Shakespeare, and to show how Marlowe's relations with Shakespeare evolved from 1590 to 1593.

... Marlowe was by now thoroughly embarrassed by the play , but nevertheless pleased to see it mounted at a time when his belief in his nation and in nationhood was being seriously questioned by those in author- ity.55 It is not impossible ...

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.

Dr. Faustus is a great Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlow originally published in 1600. The story is based on an earlier anonymous classic German legend involving worldly ambition, black magic and surrender to the devil.

In an age of tremendous cultural change in Europe when Cervantes wrote the first novel and Copernicus demonstrated a world subservient to other nonreligious forces, Catholics and Protestants battled for control of England and Elizabeth's ...

This volume presents a study of the changing images and differing ways that the life of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has been interpreted throughout history.

... in author dictionaries, cited in Index of Dictionaries to English writers (XVI – XX cc.) in the References. The ... Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) John Donne (1572-1631) John Webster (1580-1634) The ...

Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.

A detailed study of the first Faust books and the popular Faustian folk tales.

... Marlowe , Christopher . 1973. Complete works . Ed . Fredson Bowers . 2 vols . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ... in author attribution : The Federalist . Computers and the Humanities 29 : 259-270 . Masten , Jeffrey . 1997 ...