The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings by the REV. Alexander Dyce

by Christopher Marlowe

Excerpt from The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings by the Rev. Alexander Dyce

His worthy love-suit, and attains Whose bliss the wrath of Fates restrains For Cupid's grace to Mercury.

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Genres: Poetry, Classics, Drama, Plays

368 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1885

About the author

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mysterious and untimely death.

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Reviews

[WILLIAM SEATON · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interested readers may see my essay "The Bloody Venus of Marlowe’s 'Hero and Leander'” at https://williamseaton.blogspot.com/20...

[Gosia · Rating 5 out of 5]

so many pages of pure literary genius that faithful reprints of early editions only highlit, it gives one a true joy of reading

[Kyle K]

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