Tamburlaine, parts I and II
Subtitle: Doctor Faustus, A- and B-texts ; The Jew of Malta ; Edward II
By: Christopher Marlowe ; edited by David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen ; general editor, Michael Cordner ; associate general editors, Peter Holland, Martin Wiggins.
Contributors: Bevington, David M.; Rasmussen, Eric, 1960-
Series: World's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Faust, d. ca. 1540 Drama; Timur, 1336-1405 -- Drama; Magicians -- Drama; Germany -- Drama
Other titles: Tamburlaine, parts I and II ; Doctor Faustus, A- and B-texts ; The Jew of Malta ; Edward II; Doctor Faustus and other plays
Description: Christopher Marlowe (1564-93), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.

Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B-text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two.

Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxi-xxxiv)