The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume IV: The Jew of MaltaOf English Renaissance dramatists, Christopher Marlowe arguably stands second only to Shakespeare in the minds of students, directors, and theatre-goers. Yet despite this fascination with the man and his works, until the present Oxford English Texts edition there has been no complete edition of the works that not only gives them in their original spelling - with full textual apparatus - but also supplies a detailed commentary. Marlow's Jew of Malta - a very popular play in its day, as entries in Henslowe's Diary testify - ranks as one of the most imaginative creations of Elizabethan drama, having no known antecedents for the main events of the plot, and no known counterpart for its protagonist. Here it is presented in a text derived from the 1633 Quarto, with an apparatus of emendations and a full commentary on sources, allusions, and the meaning of difficult passages. |
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... stands the wind ? Into what corner peeres my Halcions bill ? Ha , to the East ? yes : See how stands the Vanes ? East and by - South : why then I hope my ships I sent for Egypt and the bordering Iles Are gotten up by Nilus winding ...
... stands the wind ? Into what corner peeres my Halcions bill ? Ha , to the East ? yes : See how stands the Vanes ? East and by - South : why then I hope my ships I sent for Egypt and the bordering Iles Are gotten up by Nilus winding ...
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... stand you thus unmov'd with my laments ? Why weepe you not to thinke upon my wrongs ? Why pine not I , and dye in this distresse ? I JEW . Why , Barabas , as hardly can we brooke The cruell handling of our selves in this : Thou seest ...
... stand you thus unmov'd with my laments ? Why weepe you not to thinke upon my wrongs ? Why pine not I , and dye in this distresse ? I JEW . Why , Barabas , as hardly can we brooke The cruell handling of our selves in this : Thou seest ...
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... stands as if he were begging of Bacon . BARABAS . Who would not thinke but that this Fryar liv'd ? What time a night is't now , sweet Ithimore ? ITHIMORE . Towards one . 155 160 BARABAS . Then will not Jacomo be long from hence ...
... stands as if he were begging of Bacon . BARABAS . Who would not thinke but that this Fryar liv'd ? What time a night is't now , sweet Ithimore ? ITHIMORE . Towards one . 155 160 BARABAS . Then will not Jacomo be long from hence ...
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