*The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe
- Editor: Patrick Cheney
- Contributors: Various incl. , Prof. Mark Burnett and .
- Published: Cambridge UP 2004.
- Details: Paperback. 336pp. [Contents List]
- ISBN: 0521527341
- Summary: A series of essays by various contributors on his life, an appraisal of each of Marlowe’s works and its context, and his poertry.
- Reviews: Cambridge University Press
*Marlowe: A Critical Study
- Author:
- Published: Cambridge University Press 1964; 1970.
- Details: Hard cover; Paperback. 390pp.
- ISBN: 0521065453; 0521096243
- Summary: A brief review of Marlowe’s life (‘Facts & Theories’) followed by critical studies of Marlowe’s 5 main plays (plus a note on The Massacre) and 3 poems (Lucan, Elegies, Hero & Leander)
- Reviews: David Cope
Christopher Marlowe: Merlin’s Prophet
- Author:
- Published: Cambridge University Press 1977.
- Details: Hard cover, Paperback (2008). 226pp.
- ISBN: 0521215544
- Summary: A series of essays on each of the plays challenges common views of Marlowe as a dogmatic moralist, and a dramatist of heroic energy with his outrageous heroes. Rather, argues Weil, he is an ironic writer of riddling plays, cunningly manipulating our responses to his characters.
*Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life
- Author: Lisa Hopkins
- Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2000.
- Details: Paperback. 177pp.
- ISBN: 0333698258
- Review: classiclit.about.com
- Summary: Marlowe’s literary career, incl. his use of foreign locations, scholarship, his portrayal of family relations, and the challenge he posed to the establishment.
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Christopher Marlowe: Renaissance Dramatist
- Author: Lisa Hopkins,
- Published: Edinburgh University Press April 2008.
- Details: Hard cover. 192pp.
- ISBN: 0748624732
- Summary: An accessible introduction to Marlowe’s plays, exploring themes such as religion, the New World and sexuality. Six chapters cover: life & death; his canon; theatrical context; knowledge; transgressing established values; common critical issues.
Christopher Marlowe at 450
- Editors: Sara Munson Deats, Robert A. Logan
- Published: Ashgate Publishing Feb 2015.
- Details: Hard cover. 382pp. [Contents]
- ISBN: 9781472409430
- Summary: A collection of essays on Marlowe’s works and contemporary contexts to mark his 450th anniversary. Along with the editors, an impressive list of contributors includes Patrick Cheney, Richard Wilson, David Bevington, Constance Brown Kuriyama. [Read Introduction]
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Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
- Editors: Sara Munson Deats, Robert A. Logan
- Published: Ashgate Publishing Feb 2008.
- Details: Hard cover. 256pp. [Contents]
- ISBN: 0754662047
- Summary: A collection of essays on Marlowe the playwright, covering aspects such as “the anti-theatrical debate”, Machiavellian ideology, violence, addiction and Marlowe’s influence on Shakespeare. Contributors incl. and .
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Doctor Faustus: A Critical Guide
- Author: Sara Munson Deats
- Published: Continuum Publishing Group Ltd 2010.
- Details: Paperback. 224pp.
- ISBN: 9781847061386
- Summary: A comprehensive introduction to Marlowe’s most popular play, introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research, and surveys notable stage productions.
Christopher Marlowe (The University Wits)
- Author: Robert A. Logan
- Published: Ashgate Publishing, 01 Feb 2011.
- Details: Hard cover. 554pp.
- ISBN: 0754628574
- Summary: Examines the characteristics of the six Wits and their influence on Elizabethan drama. Placing Marlowe in their context, and by assessing a selection of important essayson Marlowe, Logan finds his reputation the most prominent.
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Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman
- Editors: and M.L. Stapleton
- Published: Ashgate Publishing 1 August 2010.
- Details: Hard cover. 264pp. [Contents]
- ISBN: 0754669831
- Summary: Essays under the categories Lives, Stage, and Page explores the idea of Marlowe as a working artist, how he conceives an idea, shapes and refines it, and refashions it further in his writing process. The volume reflects the flourishing state of Marlowe studies in the 21st century. [Read Introduction]
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Marlowe’s Ovid: The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon
- Author: M.L. Stapleton
- Published: Ashgate Publishing June 2014.
- Details: Hard cover. 272pp. [Contents]
- ISBN: 9781472424945
- Summary: An unique perspective on the Marlowe canon as Stapleton examines Marlowe’s Elegies in the context of his seven known dramatic works and Hero and Leander, exploring how translating the Amores profited Marlowe as a writer.
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Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy
- Author:
- Publisher: Greenwood Press 1995.
- Details: Hard cover; Paperback. 200pp.
- ISBN: 0313275165; 0275936732
- Summary: Examines Marlowe’s plays as innovative experiments in redefining renaissance tragic drama.
- Reviews: Greenwood Publishing Group
Christopher Marlowe
- Author:
- Published: Northcote House Publishers 1994.
- Details: Paperback. 96pp.
- ISBN: 0746307071
- Summary: A good, brief, critical introduction to Marlowe’s work.
Christopher Marlowe
- Author:
- Published: MacMillan Palgrave 1991.
- Details: Hard cover. 177pp.
- ISBN: 0312062397
- Contents: Pt I: The Dramatised Society (1) Educational Stage (2) Theatre of Hell (3) Accidental Death of a Spy. Pt II: The Drama (1) Tamburlaine (2) Jew of Malta (3) Edward II (4) Dr Faustus.
The Overreacher
- Author:
- Published: Faber 1954 (Paperback 1967)
- Details: Hardcover. 231pp.
- ISBN: 0-57-107028-0 (Paperback)
- Review: RES Vol.8 No.301
- Summary: A discussion of Marlowe’s themes, structure, imagery, and stagecraft, and projected psychoanalysis of the author based on his work.
From Mankind to Marlowe: Growth of Structure in the Popular Drama of Tudor England
- Author:
- Published: Harvard UP 1962.
- Details: Hard cover. 320pp.
- ISBN: 0674325001
- Subtitle: Marlowe’s relationship to earlier theatrical forms.
Elizabethan Fustian (Vol I)
- Author:
- Published: NY Oxford Press 1937.
- Details: Hard cover. 223pp.
- Summary: A study in the social and political backgrounds of the drama, with particular reference to Christopher Marlowe.
Free Will or Destiny in Doctor Faustus
- Author:
- Published: VDM 2008.
- Details: Paperback. 64pp.
- ISBN: 9783639037548
- Summary: Is human nature conducted by individual impulses or subject to a greater force called destiny? Marlowe analyses this question, says Kiss, but does not try to find Faustus guilty or innocent, rather presenting the pros and cons.
Deathly Experiments: A Study of Icons and Emblems of Mortality in Christopher Marlowe
- Author:
- Published: AMS Press 15 December 2010.
- Details: Hard cover. 152pp.
- ISBN: 0404623492
- Summary: MacKenzie carefully analyses the carnival of savagery in the Marlowe’s work. The dismembering devils of Dr Faustus, the Mower of Edward II, the suicides in Dido, the gruesome brutalities of The Massacre at Paris – all reflect the popular Elizabethan conviction that death is at the very center of life. [Synopsis/Contents]
- * Recommended as indispensible reading.
- Note 1: RES – The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 8, No. 30 (May, 1957), pp. 189-191, review by .