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Christopher Marlowe, The Works of Christopher
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Edition Used:
The Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. A.H. Bullen (London: John C. Nimmo,
1885). Vol. 1.
Author:
Christopher Marlowe
Editor:
Arthur Henry Bullen
About This Title:
Three of Marlowe’s plays - Tamburlaine parts 1 and 2, and Dr. Faustus.
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Table Of Contents
Preface
Publisher's Notice
Introduction
Tamburlaine the Great. In Two Parts.
Tamburlaine the Great, Part Tbe First.
The Prologue.
Persons Represented. 1
Tamburlaine the Great. Part the First.: Act the First.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Act the Second.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene III.
Scene IV.
Scene V.
Scene VI.
Scene VII.
Act the Third.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene III.
Act the Fourth.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene III.
Scene IV.
Act the Fifth.
Scene I.
Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second
Prologue.
Persons Represented.
Tamburlaine the Great. Part the Second: Act the First.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene II.
Act the Second.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene III.
Scene IV.
Act the Third.
Scene I.
Scene II.
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Scene III.
Scene IV.
Scene V.
Act the Fourth.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene III.
Scene IV.
Act the Fifth.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene III.
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
Persons Represented.
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
Scene I.
Scene II.
Scene III.
Scene IV.
Scene V.
Scene VI. 1
Scene VII.
Scene VIII.
Scene IX.
Scene X.
Scene XI.
Scene XII.
Scene XIII.
Scene XIV.
Scene XV.
Scene XVI.
Appendix to Dr. Faustus.
Ballad of Faustus.
?δυμελε?
θ?μα μ?ν φ?ρμιγγι παμφ?νοισ? τ? ?ν ?ντεσιν α?λ?ν.
Pindar, Olymph. VII.
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PREFACE
The present volumes are the first instalment towards a collective edition of the
dramatists who lived about the time of Shakespeare. As the series is intended neither
for school-boys nor antiquarians, I have avoided discussions on grammatical usages,
and I have not preserved the orthography of the old copies. In Elizabethan times
orthography followed the caprices of the printer.
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I desire to acknowledge in the fullest and frankest manner the obligation under which
I lie towards the late Mr. Dyce. Perhaps it will be thought that Mr. Dyce's name
occurs too frequently in the notes to the present volumes. In many cases the
emendations he proposes would naturally suggest themselves to any sensible reader;
but I was unwilling to incur the suspicion of having furtively appropriated my
predecessor's notes.
I have used with advantage the late Lieutenant-Colonel Cunningham's edition of
Marlowe. Colonel Cunningham was a genial and acute editor, though somewhat
inaccurate. The elaborate editions of The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, by
Professor Ward, and the late Professor Wagner of Hamburg, have afforded me much
help; and I have consulted with profit the edition of Edward II. prepared by Mr. F. G.
Fleay, a scholar whose knowledge in some respects is unrivalled. In the British
Museum is preserved an interleaved copy of the 1826 edition of Marlowe (acquired
by the Museum authorities in 1847), containing MS. notes by a competent scholar, J.
Broughton. I have found Broughton's notes serviceable.
My best thanks are due to the Keeper of the Records of Canterbury Cathedral, Mr. J.
Brigstocke Sheppard, for his courtesy in examining the Treasurer's Accounts of the
King's School, Canterbury, and in sending me extracts from the Chamberlain's
Accounts; to my friend Mr. C. H. Firth of Balliol College, who, besides making
frequent references for me to books in the Bodleian, and aiding me with valuable
suggestions, read the proof sheets of half of the second volume and of the whole of
the third; and to my friend Mr. L. Jacob, formerly scholar ot Trinity College,
Cambridge, by whose advice I have frequently profited. For permission to print as an
appendix Mr. R. H. Home's Death of Marlowe, I am indebted to Mr. Home's literary
executor, Mr. H. Buxton Forman, the well-known editor of Shelley and Keats.
West Hampstead,
July 7, 1884.
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PUBLISHER'S NOTICE
Four hundard copies of this Edition have been printed and the type distributed. No