Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

American Book Company, 1912 - 426 Seiten

Inhalt

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• NOTES: 406
• GLOSSARY: 423

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 226 - Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars...

Seite 186 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...

Seite 19 - tis a lost fear; Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he retires. Where should Othello go? Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench! Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it.

Seite 228 - And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!

Seite 16 - They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar...

Seite 185 - Such is the subject of the institute, And universal body of the law : This study fits a mercenary drudge, Who aims at nothing but external trash ; Too servile and illiberal for me. When all is done, divinity is best: Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. [Reads. Stipendium peccati morsest. Ha ! Stipendium, etc. The reward of sin is death : that's hard.

Seite 187 - Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love...

Seite 92 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.

Seite 384 - Two kings in England cannot reign at once. But stay awhile, let me be king till night, That I may gaze upon this glittering crown; So shall my eyes receive their last content, My head, the latest honour due to it, And jointly both yield up their wished right. Continue ever thou celestial sun; Let never silent night possess this clime : Stand still you watches...

Seite 319 - Adieu, my lord; and either change your mind, Or look to see the throne, where you should sit, To float in blood; and at thy wanton head, The glozing" head of thy base minion thrown.

Über den Autor

Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury, England on February 6, 1564. He received a B.A. in 1584 and an M.A. in 1587 from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His original plans for a religious career were put aside when he decided to become a poet and playwright. His earliest work was translating Lucan and Ovid from Latin into English. He translated Vergil's Aeneid as a play. His plays included Tamburlaine the Great, Faustus, The Jew of Malta, and Dido, Queen of Carthage. His unfinished poem Hero and Leander was published in 1598. In 1589, he and a friend killed a man, but were acquitted on a plea of self-defense. His political views were unorthodox, and he was thought to be a government secret agent. He was arrested in May 1593 on a charge of atheism. He was killed in a brawl in a Deptford tavern on May 30, 1593.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: Christopher Marlowe; Masterpieces of the English drama; Masterpieces of the English drama, general editor: F. E. Schelling
• Autor/in: Christopher Marlowe
• Mitwirkende Personen: William Lyon Phelps
• Verlag: American Book Company, 1912
• Original von: Harvard University
• Digitalisiert: 22. Febr. 2008
• ISBN: 0598691197, 9780598691194
• Länge: 426 Seiten