Marlowe, Christopher

1564 - 1593

British playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare—and, some say, the true author of the plays attributed to Willie the Shake — Marlowe is relevant to the Gothic tradition as the author of one of the more popular and well-known versions of the Faust myth, the classic "selling one's soul to the devil" story.

Sites:
Christopher Marlowe site
[Luminarium]
brief biographical note
[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby]
Biographical note
[The Authors Calendar]
Brief biographical note
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
Marlowe Etexts
[The Perseus Project, Tufts U]
Marlowe Hyper-Concordance
Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts of Marlowe's works, including Faustus.


Etexts:
Faustus
a. k. a. Doctor Faustus and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
An excellent and scholarly site that allows you to choose from different versions of Marlowe's play, in either the original or modernized English. [The Perseus Project, Tufts U]
-- Brief summary and commentary [Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database, NYU School of Medicine]
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