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The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume I: All Ovids Elegies, Lucans First Booke, Dido Queene of Carthage, Hero and Leander

Christopher Marlowe author Roma Gill editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:18th Dec '86

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The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume I: All Ovids Elegies, Lucans First Booke, Dido Queene of Carthage, Hero and Leander cover

A scholarly edition of works by Christopher Marlowe. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

`Roma Gill's determination to give us Marlowe's poetry pure, unemended, and unmodified by the work of others reflects a keen appreciation of it which finds expression also in pithy but powerful introductions to the works in this volume ... this volume is a splendid beginning to the `Oxford Marlowe' - as pure and bright as modern scholarship can make him' Katherine Duncan-Jones, Somerville College, Oxford, Review of English Studies, Vol. 38 No. 155
`splendid edition ... rich commentaries ... choice of texts, along with the old spelling and careful, minimally intrusive editorial alterations, make this first and foremost an edition for scholars. It is also, though, quite useful for all kinds of readers because of the substantial "Commentary" that Gill provides for each of the works ... Each text is preceded by both a "General Introduction" and a "Textual Introduction". These are of excellent quality and great value ... Roma Gill has given to the world of Marlowe scholarship a first-rate set of texts and commentaries which firmly establish Marlowe, like Ben Jonson, as a poet and playwright intimately identifiable with the classical tradition and one who must be reckoned with on those terms.' Brian Striar, University of North Florida, Marlowe Society of America

ISBN: 9780198118787

Dimensions: 223mm x 142mm x 31mm

Weight: 555g

330 pages