This complete collection of Marlowe's poetry includes his translations of Ovid's "Elegies" and the First Book from Lucan's "Civil Hero.

The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright--newly revised and updated Though best known for his plays--and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheist--Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished ...

"Bringing together the complete body of Marlowe's poetry ... the book also incorporates related works by other writers .

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This is also the first biography to explore in detail Marlowe's relations with fellow playwrights such as Kyd and Shakespeare, and to show how Marlowe's relations with Shakespeare evolved from 1590 to 1593.

The only single-volume edition of Marlowe's poems available. Selections include "The Passionate Shepard", "Hero and Leander", "Lucan's First Book", and translations of Ovid's "Amore" and "Elegies".

Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (26 February 1564 - 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.

The text of this complete edition reveals Marlowe as a highly gifted but disturbed young man, more disillusioned than idealistic, who produced works of great strength and complexity. --Tuttle, Charles E./Everyman.