[ DVDs: Stage on Screen's Dr. Faustus | Jarman's Edward II | Burton & Taylor's Dr. Faustus ]
[ Books: Professor Park Honan's Marlowe Biography ]
Stage on Screen DVD: Doctor Faustus at the Greenwich Theatre
- DVD Release Date: January 2010.
- Studio: Stage on Screen.
- Running Time: Not specified.
- Theatre Production Director: Elizabeth Freestone.
- Starring: Gareth Kennerley as Faustus, Tim Treloar as Mephistopheles.
- Region: Stage on Screen state: "DVDs will be supplied in the format suitable for the country being ordered from".
- DVD Reviews: The Stage. Theatre Production Reviews: British Theatre Guide; ThisIsLocalLondon.
- Summary: Greenwich Theatre signed a unique deal with Stage on Screen to stage high quality professional productions of classic texts, and the theatre's production of Doctor Faustus in October 2009 was one of the first DVDs to be produced via this arrangement. The production itself was billed as follows: "Greenwich Theatre makes a dramatic return to producing with Marlowe's devilish tale of magic, sin and ambition. Directed by Elizabeth Freestone, and designed by Neil Irish."
- Buy Online: Stage on Screen: Standard DVD (1 Disc); Library Pack (3 discs); or Teacher Pack (4 discs).
- Website Links: Stage on Screen's Doctor Faustus: Introduction & DVD Clips, Study Area, Production, Text.
DVD Release: Edward II (1991) - Directed by Derek Jarman
- Remastered DVD Release Date: 01 March 2010
- Studio: Second Sight Films
- Running Time: 87 minutes.
- Director: Derek Jarman.
- Starring: Steven Waddington, Tilda Swinton, Andrew Tiernan, Dudley Sutton and Nigel Terry.
- Region: Region 2 encoding (Europe, including UK).
- Summary: "Marlowe's play is radically adapted by Derek Jarman in one of his most powerful films. Using anachronistic imagery, modern dress, gay activists battling riot police and Annie Lennox singing Cole Porter, the story of Britain's only openly gay monarch and the persecution he suffered is given a contemporary resonance by Jarman, paralleling the injustice with prevailing modern-day homophobia. Bonus Feature: Derek's Edward - An exclusive documentary featuring cast and crew interviews."
- Reviews: Wikipedia; Time Out; New York Times; FilmCritic.com; LoveFilm; MovieTalk;
- Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
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- Website Links: Edward II at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB); Jon Savage on Derek Jarman.
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy by Professor Park Honan
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Details: Hardback & paperback; 448 pages.
- Publication Dates: Hardback: October 2005; Paperback: August 2007.
- Hardback ISBN: 0-19-818695-9; 978-0-19-818695-3
- Paperback ISBN: 0-19-923269-5; 978-0-19-923269-7
- Reviews: London Review of Books by John Bossy (and Park Honan's Reply); New York Times by Michael Feingold; New York Review of Books by Stephen Greenblatt.
- Summary: An authoritative and highly readable account of Marlowe's life and works up until his recorded death in 1593 by Professor Park Honan (a Marlowe Society Vice-President), which also unearths new documentary evidence relating to Ingram Frizer following his release.
- Website Link: Reviewed by Roger Hards in Marlowe Society Newsletter 26
- Buy Online: See Marlowe Society biographies page with links to buy online.
DVD Release: Doctor Faustus (1967)
- DVD Release Date: 02 March 2004
- Studio: Sony Pictures
- Running Time: 92 minutes.
- Starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and the Oxford University Players
- Directors: Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill.
- Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only, or may play on "region-free" DVD players).
- Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk
- Summary: Richard Burton stars as the aging scholar who makes a deal with the devil for youth, knowledge, and a dazzling mistress. Taylor plays the spellbinding seductress who seals Faustus' fate.
- Website Link: Doctor Faustus at IMDB for summary, cast, plot, trivia and quotes.
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