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The Complete Plays
The Complete Plays
Christopher Marlowe
Romany, Frank Lindsey, Robert
ISBN: 9780140436334
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
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Christopher Marlowe - a possible spy with a reputation for atheism who was murdered in mysterious circumstances - courted danger throughout his life. A sense of the dark forces operating in social and political relationships underlies his work. In Dr. Faustus…
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Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus' encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in "The Jew of Malta", and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and helplessness, the sacred and its desecration.
