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The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume V: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts 1 and 2, and The Massacre at Paris with the Death of the Duke of Guise (Hardcover)
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The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume V: Tamburlaine the Great, Parts 1 and 2, and The Massacre at Paris with the Death of the Duke of Guise (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Texts
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This volume, which completes the Oxford English Texts edition of
The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe, contains the two parts
of Tamburlaine the Great, edited by David Fuller, and The Massacre
at Paris, edited by Edward J. Esche. It is the first time that
either text has been presented in an old-spelling edition with a
full critical commentary and textual annotation. The introduction
to Tamburlaine gives a detailed account of the plays' sources,
stage history, and text. The critical discussion considers the
fundamental clashes which Marlowe dramatizes; the differing
interpretations - often involved with opposing views of the
Renaissance - to which these have given rise; and how new critical
methodologies, and recent research into occult traditions in the
Renaissance, might affect our reading of Marlowe. The commentary
brings together the extensive modern scholarship on the plays,
offers some new suggestions about their probable stage action, and
cites new material from the period to contextualize Marlowe's
treatment of war, medicine, religious controversy, and many other
subjects. It also draws on scholarship on Elizabethan pronunciation
to clarify Marlowe's poetic rhythms, and uses the revised edition
of OED to investigate more fully than has previously been possible
the originality and inventiveness of Marlowe's language. The
Massacre at Paris survives only in a severely mangled version,
which bears many of the signs of a `reported text'; nevertheless,
it provides us with the unique example of Marlowe using
contemporary French history as his subject matter. The play has
been edited from the copy of the Octavo once belonging to Edmund
Malone, now held in the Bodleian Library. The edition also presents
the single extant leaf of Massacre (Folger MS. J.b.8) in an
authoritative form with apparatus, and argues for its legitimacy as
a genuine playhouse document, although not Marlowe's autograph.
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