The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwright?newly revised andupdated
Though best known for his plays?and for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and anoutspoken atheist?Christopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. Thislong-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his completelyric works?from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, "The PassionateShepherd to His Love," to the impressive epic mythological poem "Hero and Leander."
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The essential lyric works of the great Elizabethan playwrightanewly revised and updatedThough best known for his playsaand for courting danger as a homosexual, a spy, and an outspoken atheistaChristopher Marlowe was also an accomplished and celebrated poet. This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric worksafrom his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, aThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love, a to the impressive epic mythological poem aHero and Leander.a 作者简介
Christopher Marlowe (1564?1593), regarded as the foremost English dramatist beforeShakespeare, was murdered at the age of twenty-nine.
Stephen Orgel, the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities at Stanford University,is the general editor of the Pelican Shakespeare series and the Cambridge Studies inRenaissance Literature and Culture.
| 出版社 | Penguin Classics |
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| 作者 | Christopher Marlowe |