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Product Description: Tamburlaine the Great, Part One and Part Two are the first plays that Christopher Marlowe wrote for London’s then new freestanding, open-air public playhouses. They trace the progress of Tamburlaine, a Central Asian leader, as he “scourge[s] kingdoms with his conquering sword” and rises to imperial power...read more
By Mathew R. Martin (editor)

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9781554811748 | Broadview Pr, March 11, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Tamburlaine the Great, Part One and Part Two are the first plays that Christopher Marlowe wrote for London’s then new freestanding, open-air public playhouses.

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Product Description: Doctor Faustus is one of early modern English drama’s most fascinating characters, and Doctor Faustus one of its most problematic plays. Selling his soul to Lucifer in return for twenty-four years of power, wealth, knowledge, and sex, Doctor Faustus is at once an aspiring Renaissance magus and the hardened reprobate of Protestant theology...read more

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9781554811120 | Broadview Pr, June 17, 2013, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Doctor Faustus is one of early modern English drama’s most fascinating characters, and Doctor Faustus one of its most problematic plays.

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Product Description: First performed by Shakespeare’s rivals in the 1590s, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta was a trend-setting, innovative play whose black comedy and final tragic irony illuminate the darker regions of the Elizabethan cultural imagination...read more
By Mathew R. Martin (editor)

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9781554810680 | Broadview Pr, December 2, 2011, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: First performed by Shakespeare’s rivals in the 1590s, Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta was a trend-setting, innovative play whose black comedy and final tragic irony illuminate the darker regions of the Elizabethan cultural imagination.

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Product Description: Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in British theater: the establishment of secular and professional theater in London in the 1580s, and the growing dissatisfaction with theatrical modes of public punishment alongside the increasing efficacy of staging extravagant spectacles at the end of the eighteenth century...read more
By Mathew R. Martin (editor)

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9780754667582 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 6, 2009, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Bookending the chronology of this collection are two crucial moments in the histories of pain, trauma, and their staging in British theater: the establishment of secular and professional theater in London in the 1580s, and the growing dissatisfaction with theatrical modes of public punishment alongside the increasing efficacy of staging extravagant spectacles at the end of the eighteenth century.

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Product Description: This book studies the major city comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton in the context of the quarrel between theater and philosophy. The book presents deconstructive and materialist readings of Jonson's Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair and Middleton's Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside...read more

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9781611491982 | Univ of Delaware Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This book studies the major city comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton in the context of the quarrel between theater and philosophy.
9780874137392 | Univ of Delaware Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This book studies the major city comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton in the context of the quarrel between theater and philosophy.

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