{"product_id":"christopher-marlowe-four-plays-9781408149492","title":"Christopher Marlowe Four Plays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Marlowe (1564-93) was an English playwright and poet, who through his establishment of blank verse as a medium for drama did much to free the Elizabethan theatre from the constraints of the medieval and Tudor dramatic tradition. His first play \u003ci\u003eTamburlaine the Great\u003c\/i\u003e, was performed that same year, probably by the Admiral's Men with Edward Alleyn in the lead. With its swaggering power-hungry title character and gorgeous verse the play proved to be enormously popular; Marlowe quickly wrote a second part, which may have been produced later that year. Marlowe's most famous play, \u003ci\u003eThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e, based on the medieval German legend of the scholar who sold his soul to the devil, was probably written and produced by 1590, although it was not published until 1604. Historically the play is important for utilizing the soliloquy as an aid to character analysis and development. \u003ci\u003eThe Jew of Malta\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ec. \u003c\/i\u003e1590) has another unscrupulous aspiring","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407989907799,"sku":"9781408149492","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408149492.jpg?v=1730501192","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/christopher-marlowe-four-plays-9781408149492","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}