By the end of his violent and tragically short life, Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) was famous not only as a playwright, but as a poet whose verse and translations were changing the course of English poetry.
This edition prints all Marlowe’s surviving verse – together with his translations from Lucan and Ovid – presented in a conservatively modernized text. Also included are two continuations of Hero and Leander (by Chapman and Pete) and replies to The Passionate Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh, Donne and J. Paulin. The notes concentrate on points of linguistic and syntactic difficulty, while a glossarial index covers all classical names.
