Christopher Marlowe 
The Complete Plays of Christopher Marlowe 

Christopher Marlowe lived a life that echoed the violence in his plays. He was born in 1564 and was murdered in 1593 in what is speculated to be a political assassination. An educated man, he received both his B. A. and M. A. at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where it is believed that he wrote Part I of ‚Tamberlaine‘, and possibly ‚Dido Queen of Carthage‘. Machiavellian themes are present in much of Marlowe’s work, the main characters constantly involved in a tumultuous upward climb toward unattainable infinite success. Marlowe’s perhaps greatest legacy was introducing blank verse into English theatre with ‚Tamburlaine The Great, Part I.‘ This collection includes: ‚Dido Queen of Carthage‘, ‚Tamburlaine, Parts I & II‘, ‚The Jew of Malta‘, ‚The Massacre At Paris‘, ‚Edward The Second‘, ‚The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus‘, ‚The First Book of Lucan‘, ‚Ovid’s Elegies‘, and ‚Hero and Leander‘.