The Plays of Christopher Marlowe

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This is the first scholarly one-volume edition of Marlowe's plays since 1910. The texts are newly and carefully edited, and are preceded by a long, original, and definitive introduction - a short book, in fact. Following the plays are textual notes and act-scene comparisons with other editions, and a glossary defining as completely as possible all difficult words, phrases, and references. Professor Kirschbaum (of Wayne State University) is acknowledged as one of the world's leading scholars of Elizabethan literature. He is the author of The True Text of "King Lear" and Shakespeare and the Stationers, editor of the widely used Edmund Spenser: Selected Poetry, and in several pioneering essays he has overturned old, mistaken notions about Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta. The general reader and the student now have, for the first time, the Marlowe texts and interpretations now accepted by specialists.
Professor Kirschbaum—in a rare combination of talents — is not... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This is the first scholarly one-volume edition of Marlowe's plays since 1910. The texts are newly and carefully edited, and are preceded by a long, original, and definitive introduction - a short book, in fact. Following the plays are textual notes and act-scene comparisons with other editions, and a glossary defining as completely as possible all difficult words, phrases, and references. Professor Kirschbaum (of Wayne State University) is acknowledged as one of the world's leading scholars of Elizabethan literature. He is the author of The True Text of "King Lear" and Shakespeare and the Stationers, editor of the widely used Edmund Spenser: Selected Poetry, and in several pioneering essays he has overturned old, mistaken notions about Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta. The general reader and the student now have, for the first time, the Marlowe texts and interpretations now accepted by specialists.
Professor Kirschbaum—in a rare combination of talents — is not only a first-class textual and historical critic but is also a profound student and lover of the living stage. His introduction therefore contains — in addition to studies of Marlowe's literary and historical sources, discussions of the Elizabethan theater, and critical synopses of the five plays -much detail about actual production, with emphasis on the problems of staging and directing Marlowe today.
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