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The
Works of Christopher Marlowe
Christopher
Marlowe (bap. 26 February 1564, Canterbury, England – 30
May 1593, Deptford, England), English Renaissance playwright and
poet.
Plays |
# |
Title |
Composed |
First Performance |
First Pub. |
Authorship |
1 |
Dido, Queen of Carthage |
1585-86? |
1593, Children of the Queen's Chapel |
1594 |
co-written with Thomas Nash |
2 |
Tamburlaine the Great, Part One |
1587-88 |
1587-88?, Admiral's Men |
1590 |
CM |
3 |
Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two |
1587-88 |
1587-88?, Admiral's Men |
1590 |
CM |
4 |
The Jew of Malta |
1588-92 |
1592, Strange's Men |
1633 |
CM |
5 |
Doctor Faustus[1] |
1588-92 |
1594, Admiral's Men |
'A', 1604
'B', 1616 |
CM |
6 |
Edward the Second |
1588-92 |
1594, Pembroke's Men |
1594 |
CM |
7 |
The Massacre at Paris |
1588-92 |
1592-93, Strange's Men; 1594, Admiral's Men[2] |
after 1594 |
CM |
Poems |
# |
Title |
Composed |
First Performance |
First Pub. |
Authorship |
1 |
Ovid's Elegies |
1584-85 |
late 1590s-early 17th century |
CM translator |
2 |
'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' |
1587-88? |
partially, 1599, in The Passionate Pilgrim |
CM |
3 |
First book of Lucan's The Pharsalia |
1593 |
1600 |
CM, translator |
4 |
Hero and Leander |
1592-1593,
unfinished |
1598 |
CM, completed by George Chapman |
5 |
Epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood |
btw 1592-1593 |
[1593] |
CM |
6 |
Dedicatory Epistle to Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
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btw 1592-1593 |
1592,
preface to Thomas Watson's Amintae gaudia |
CM attributed |
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Notes
1 Two different versions referred to as 'A' and 'B'.
2. Earliest performances of a tragedy of the Guise thought to
be Marlowe's.
Sources
Cheney, P., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe.
Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
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