The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/Christopher Marlow
Christopher Marlow.
A Famous Poet of Queen Elizabeth and King James’s Time, contemporary with the immortal Shakespear, was Fellow-Actor with Heywood, and others, he writ a Poem called, Hero and Leander, much commended, as also these seven Plays following:
Dr. Faustus his tragical History, 4 to. 1661, being the last Edition, printed with the Addition of many Scenes. Plot, Camerarii Opera Subsc. Cent. 1. Cap. 70. Wierus de Præftig. Dæmonum, Lib. 2. Cap. 4. Lonicerus, &c.
Dido, Queen of Carthage, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1594. In this he was joined by Nash. Plot from Virgil’s Æneids, Book 4.
Edward the Second, a Tragedy, 4 to. 1594. Plot from Thomas de la More, Sir Francis Hubert, and other English Historians of that Time.
Jew of Malta, a Tragi-Comedy, 4 to. 1633. Acted by her Majesty’s Servants at the Cock-pit, and at Whitehall, before the King and Queen. A Play of great Esteem in those Days.
Lust’s Dominion; or, The Lascivious Queen, a Tragedy 8 vo. 1661. This Play has been acted of late Years, under the Title of Abdelazar; or, The Moor’s Revenge: with few Alterations, by Mrs. Behn.
Massacre at Paris, with the Death of the Duke of Guise, a Tragedy, 8 vo. Acted by the Lord Admiral’s Servants. Is not divided into Acts. Plot from Davila, Thuanus, Dupleix, and Mezeray, in the Reigns of Char. IX. and Hen. III. of France.
Tamberlain the Great; or, The Scythian Shepherd, in Two Parts, a Tragedy, 8 vo. 1593. Acted also by the Lord Admiral’s Servants. Plot, Jean du Bec, Laonicus, Chalcocondilas, Pet. Bizarus, Knolles Hist. Turks, L’Histoire de Tamerlain, 8 vo. and his Life in English, 8 vo.