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Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe MASSACRE AT PARIS By Christopher Marlowe MASSACRE AT PARIS CONTENTS Table of Contents with inital stage directions THE MASSACRE AT PARIS DRAMATIS PERSONAE THE MASSACRE AT PARIS. Massacre at Paris [Scene i] Massacre at Paris [Scene ii] Massacre at Paris [Scene iii] Massacre at Paris [Scene iv] Massacre at […]

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The Passionate Shepherd To His Love Poem by Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd To His Love Poem by Christopher Marlowe THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE COME live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields. And we […]

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Tamburlaine the Great, Part I by Christopher Marlowe TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, IN TWO PARTS. This is Part I. By Christopher Marlowe Edited By The Rev. Alexander Dyce. Go to Tamburlaine the Great Part II. TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT PART 1 CONTENTS TO THE GENTLEMEN-READERS AND OTHERS THAT TAKE PLEASURE THE FIRST PART OF TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT. […]

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Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 by Christopher Marlowe TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT—THE SECOND PART By Christopher Marlowe Edited By The Rev. Alexander Dyce This is Part II. Go to Tamburlaine the Great Part I. TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT PART 2 THE PROLOGUE. The general welcomes Tamburlaine receiv’d, When he arrived last upon the 1 stage, Have made […]

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The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedie, by Thomas Kyd THE SPANISH TRAGEDIE 1587 By Thomas Kyd Containing the lamentable end of DON HORATIO, and BEL-IMPERIA: with the pittiful death of olde HIERONIMO. Newly corrected and amended of such grosse faults as passed in the first impression. At London Printed by Edward Allde, […]

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The First Book of Lucan Translated by Christopher Marlowe THE FIRST BOOK OF LUCAN. Translated by Christopher Marlowe Lucans First Booke Translated Line for Line, By Chr. Marlow. At London, the Flower de Luce in Paules Churchyard, 1600, 4to. TO HIS KIND AND TRUE FRIEND, EDWARD BLUNT.[576] Blunt,[577] I propose to be blunt with you, […]

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Ovid’s Amores Elegies Translated by Christopher Marlowe OVID’S ELEGIES. Translated by Christopher Marlowe All the old editions of Marlowe’s translation of the Amores are undated, and bear the imprint Middleburgh (in various spellings). It is probable that the copy which Mr. Charles Edmonds discovered at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire (the seat of Sir Charles Isham, Bart.), […]

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P. Ovidii Nasonis Amorum Liber Primus Translated by Christopher Marlowe P. Ovidii Nasonis Amorum Liber Primus (Book 1) Translated by Christopher Marlowe P. Ovidii Nasonis Amorum Elegia I. Quemadmodum a Cupidine, pro bellis amoris scribere coactus sit. We which were Ovid’s five books, now are three, For these before the rest preferreth he: If reading […]

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P. Ovidii Nasonis Amorum Liber Secundus Translated by Christopher Marlowe P. Ovidii Nasonis Amorum Liber Secundus (Book 2) Translated by Christopher Marlowe P. Ovidii Nasonis Amorum Elegia I.[233] Quod pro gigantomachia amores scribere sit coactus. I, Ovid, poet, of my[234] wantonness, Born at Peligny, to write more address. So Cupid wills. Far hence be the […]

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P. Ovidii Nasonis Amorum Liber Tertius Translated by Christopher Marlowe P. Ovidii Nasonis Amorum Liber Tertius (Book 3) Translated by Christopher Marlowe P. Ovidii Nasonis Amorum Elegia I.[341] Deliberatio poetæ, utrum elegos pergat scribere an potius tragœdias. An old wood stands, uncut of long years’ space, ‘Tis credible some godhead[342] haunts the place. In midst […]

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