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The Works of Christopher Marlowe Vol. 1 [1590] The Online Library of Liberty A Project Of Liberty Fund, Inc. Christopher Marlowe, The Works of Christopher Marlowe vol. 1 [1590] The Online Library Of Liberty This E-Book (PDF format) is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, non-profit, educational foundation established in 1960 to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. 2010 was the 50th anniversary year of the founding of Liberty Fund. It is part of the Online Library of Liberty web site http://oll.libertyfund.org, which was established in 2004 in order to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. To find out more about the author or title, to use the site's powerful search engine, to see other titles in other formats (HTML, facsimile PDF), or to make use of the hundreds of essays, educational aids, and study guides, please visit the OLL web site. 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Author: Christopher Marlowe Editor: Arthur Henry Bullen About This Title: Three of Marlowe’s plays - Tamburlaine parts 1 and 2, and Dr. Faustus. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1687 Online Library of Liberty: The Works of Christopher Marlowe vol. 1 About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Copyright Information: The text is in the public domain. Fair Use Statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1687 Online Library of Liberty: The Works of Christopher Marlowe vol. 1 PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1687 Online Library of Liberty: The Works of Christopher Marlowe vol. 1 Table Of Contents Preface Publisher's Notice Introduction Tamburlaine the Great. In Two Parts. Tamburlaine the Great, Part Tbe First. The Prologue. Persons Represented. 1 Tamburlaine the Great. Part the First.: Act the First. Scene I. Scene II. Act the Second. Scene I. Scene II. Scene III. Scene IV. Scene V. Scene VI. Scene VII. Act the Third. Scene I. Scene II. Scene III. Act the Fourth. Scene I. Scene II. Scene III. Scene IV. Act the Fifth. Scene I. Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second Prologue. Persons Represented. Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second: Act the First. Scene I. Scene II. Scene II. Act the Second. Scene I. Scene II. Scene III. Scene IV. Act the Third. Scene I. Scene II. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1687 Online Library of Liberty: The Works of Christopher Marlowe vol. 1 Scene III. Scene IV. Scene V. Act the Fourth. Scene I. Scene II. Scene III. Scene IV. Act the Fifth. Scene I. Scene II. Scene III. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Persons Represented. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Scene I. Scene II. Scene III. Scene IV. Scene V. Scene VI. 1 Scene VII. Scene VIII. Scene IX. Scene X. Scene XI. Scene XII. Scene XIII. Scene XIV. Scene XV. Scene XVI. Appendix to Dr. Faustus. Ballad of Faustus. ?δυμελε? θ?μα μ?ν φ?ρμιγγι παμφ?νοισ? τ? ?ν ?ντεσιν α?λ?ν. Pindar, Olymph. VII. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1687 Online Library of Liberty: The Works of Christopher Marlowe vol. 1 [Back to Table of Contents] PREFACE The present volumes are the first instalment towards a collective edition of the dramatists who lived about the time of Shakespeare. As the series is intended neither for school-boys nor antiquarians, I have avoided discussions on grammatical usages, and I have not preserved the orthography of the old copies. In Elizabethan times orthography followed the caprices of the printer.1 I desire to acknowledge in the fullest and frankest manner the obligation under which I lie towards the late Mr. Dyce. Perhaps it will be thought that Mr. Dyce's name occurs too frequently in the notes to the present volumes. In many cases the emendations he proposes would naturally suggest themselves to any sensible reader; but I was unwilling to incur the suspicion of having furtively appropriated my predecessor's notes. I have used with advantage the late Lieutenant-Colonel Cunningham's edition of Marlowe. Colonel Cunningham was a genial and acute editor, though somewhat inaccurate. The elaborate editions of The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, by Professor Ward, and the late Professor Wagner of Hamburg, have afforded me much help; and I have consulted with profit the edition of Edward II. prepared by Mr. F. G. Fleay, a scholar whose knowledge in some respects is unrivalled. In the British Museum is preserved an interleaved copy of the 1826 edition of Marlowe (acquired by the Museum authorities in 1847), containing MS. notes by a competent scholar, J. Broughton. I have found Broughton's notes serviceable. My best thanks are due to the Keeper of the Records of Canterbury Cathedral, Mr. J. Brigstocke Sheppard, for his courtesy in examining the Treasurer's Accounts of the King's School, Canterbury, and in sending me extracts from the Chamberlain's Accounts; to my friend Mr. C. H. Firth of Balliol College, who, besides making frequent references for me to books in the Bodleian, and aiding me with valuable suggestions, read the proof sheets of half of the second volume and of the whole of the third; and to my friend Mr. L. Jacob, formerly scholar ot Trinity College, Cambridge, by whose advice I have frequently profited. For permission to print as an appendix Mr. R. H. Home's Death of Marlowe, I am indebted to Mr. Home's literary executor, Mr. H. Buxton Forman, the well-known editor of Shelley and Keats. West Hampstead, July 7, 1884. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 7 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1687 Online Library of Liberty: The Works of Christopher Marlowe vol. 1 [Back to Table of Contents] PUBLISHER'S NOTICE Four hundard copies of this Edition have been printed and the type distributed. No more will be published. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 8 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1687 Online Library of Liberty: The Works of Christopher Marlowe vol. 1 [Back to Table of Contents] INTRODUCTION Marlowe was educated at the King's School, Canterbury. His name does not occur in the Treasurer's Accounts for 1575-6 and 1576-7; and the register for 1577-8 is lost. In the accounts for the first quarter of the financial year 1578-9 (namely, from Michaelmas to Christmas 1578) we find no mention of him, but in the accounts for the three following quarters (January to Michaelmas 1579) he is reported to have received his exhibition of £i per quarter. For 1579-80 the record is missing.1 On 17th March 1580-1, Marlowe matriculated at Cambridge as Pensioner of Benet College (now Corpus Christi). The only mention of him in the Books of the College is an entry of his admission, and he is there called simply “Marlin”without the Christian name. It appears to have been a rule at Benet College to record the Christian name along with the surname only in the case of scholars; hence the absence of the Christian name is held to show that Marlowe was not elected to one of the two scholarships which had recently been founded by Archbishop Parker at Benet College for the benefit of boys educated at the King's School, Canterbury. Cunningham urges that it is “less unlikely that a hurried and quasi informal entry has been made in the books than that a boy of Marlowe's industry and precocity of intellect should have gone from that particular school to that particular college on any footing than that of a foundation scholar.” The absence of Marlowe's Christian name from the College Books is a tangible piece of evidence, but there is nothing whatever to show that Marlowe was distinguished for industry at school. His classical attainments at the beginning of his literary career appear not to have been considerable. In his translation of Ovid's Amores, which is by no means a difficult book, he misses the sense in passages which could be construed to-day with ease by any fourth-form boy. After making all allowance for the inaccuracy of ordinary scholarship vn Marlowe's day, it may be safely said that the poet could not have earned much distinction at Cambridge for sound classical knowledge.
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