C. L. Barber, Creating Elizabethan Tragedy: The Theater of Marlowe and Kyd, ed. Richard P. Wheeler (Chicago, 1988).
Emily C. Bartels, Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation and Marlowe (Philadelphia, 1993).
Lawrence Danson, ‘Christopher Marlowe: The Questioner’, English Literary Renaissance 12 (1982), pp. 3–29.
Kenneth Friedenreich, Roma Gill and Constance B. Kuriyama (eds.), ‘A Poet and a Filthy Play-Maker’: New Essays on Christopher Marlowe (New York, 1988).
Darryll Grantley and Peter Roberts (eds.), Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture (Aldershot, 1996).
Stephen J. Greenblatt, ‘Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play’, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago and London, 1980), pp. 193–221.
Michael Hattaway, Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance (London, 1982).
Alvin Kernan (ed.), Two Renaissance Mythmakers: Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1975–6, new series no. 1 (Baltimore, 1977).
Constance Brown Kuriyama, Hammer or Anvil: Psychological Patterns in Christopher Marlowe’s Plays (New Brunswick, 1980).
___, Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life (Ithaca, NY, and London, 2002).
Harry Levin, Christopher Marlowe: The Overreacher (London, 1954).
Arthur Lindley, ‘The Unbeing of the Overreacher: Proteanism and the Marlovian Hero’, Modern Language Review 84 (1989), pp. 1–17.
Wilbur Sanders, The Dramatist and the Received Idea: Studies in the Plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1968).
Ethel Seaton, ‘Fresh Sources for Marlowe’, Review of English Studies 5 (1929), pp. 385–401.
Vivien Thomas and William Tydeman (eds.), Christopher Marlowe: The Plays and their Sources (London, 1994).
Judith Weil, Christopher Marlowe: Merlin’s Prophet (Cambridge, 1977).
Standard Modern Edition
H. J. Oliver (ed.), Dido Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris, Revels Plays (Manchester, 1968).
Criticism
Jackson I. Cope, ‘Marlowe’s Dido and the Titillating Children’, English Literary Renaissance 4 (1974), pp. 315–25.
Brian Gibbons, ‘“Unstable Proteus”: The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage’, in Christopher Marlowe, ed. Brian Morris (London, 1968).
Roma Gill, ‘Marlowe’s Virgil: Dido Queene of Carthage’, Review of English Studies n.s. 28 (1977), pp. 141–55.
Margo Hendricks, ‘Managing the Barbarian: The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage’, Renaissance Drama 23 (1992), pp. 165–88.
Malcolm Kelsall, Christopher Marlowe (Leiden, 1981), ch. 3.
Mary E. Smith, ‘Staging Marlowe’s Dido Queene of Carthage’, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 17 (1977), pp. 177–90.
Standard Modern Editions
J. S. Cunningham (ed.), Tamburlaine the Great, Revels Plays (Manchester, 1981).
David Fuller (ed.), Tamburlaine Parts 1 and 2, Complete Works, vol. 5 (Oxford, 1998).
John Jump (ed.), Tamburlaine the Great (London, 1967).
Criticism
C. L. Barber, Creating Elizabethan Tragedy: The Theater of Marlowe and Kyd, ed. Richard P. Wheeler (Chicago, 1988), 45–86.
David Daiches, ‘Language and Action in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine’, More Literary Essays (Edinburgh, 1968), pp. 42–69.
Helen Gardner, ‘The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great’, Modern Language Review 37 (1942), pp. 18–24.
John Gillies, ‘Marlowe, the Timur myth, and the Motives of Geography’, in Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama, ed. John Gillies and Virginia Mason Vaughan (Madison, Wis., and London, 1998), pp. 203–29.
Ethel Seaton, ‘Marlowe’s Map’, Essays and Studies 10 (1924), pp. 13–35.
Eugene M. Waith, The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York and London, 1962).
___, ‘Marlowe and the Jades of Asia’, Studies in English Literature 5 (1965), pp. 229–45.
Richard Wilson, ‘Visible Bullets: Tamburlaine the Great and Ivan the Terrible’, English Literary History 62 (1995), pp. 47–68.
Standard Modern Edition
N. W. Bawcutt (ed.), The Jew of Malta, Revels Plays (Manchester, 1978).
Criticism
Howard S. Babb, ‘“Policy” in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta’, English Literary History 24 (1957), pp. 85–94.
Thomas Cartelli, ‘Shakespeare’s Merchant, Marlowe’s Jew: The Problem of Cultural Difference’, Shakespeare Studies 20 (1987), pp.255–68.
Coburn Freer, ‘Lies and Lying in The Jew of Malta’, in Kenneth Friedenreich et al. (eds.), ‘A Poet and a Filthy Play-Maker’: New Essays on Christopher Marlowe (New York, 1988), pp. 143–65.
Stephen J. Greenblatt, ‘Marlowe, Marx, and Anti-Semitism’, in his Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (Chicago and London, 1990), pp. 40–58.
G. K. Hunter, ‘The Theology of The Jew of Malta’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 27 (1964), pp. 211–40.
Ian McAdam, ‘Carnal Identity in The Jew of Malta’, English Literary Renaissance 26 (1996), pp. 46–74.
Catherine Minshull, ‘Marlowe’s “Sound Machevill”’, Renaissance Drama n.s. 13 (1982).
Wilbur Sanders, The Dramatist and the Received Idea: Studies in the Plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1968), ch. 3
Standard Modern Editions
David Bevington and Eric Rasmussen (eds.), Doctor Faustus. A-and B-Texts (1604, 1616), Revels Plays (Manchester, 1993).
___(eds.), Dr Faustus and Other Plays (Oxford, 1995).
C. L. Barber, ‘The Form of Faustus’ Fortunes Good or Bad’, Tulane Drama Review 8 (1964), pp. 92–119; repr. in his Creating Elizabethan Tragedy: The Theater of Marlowe and Kyd, ed. Richard P. Wheeler (Chicago, 1988), pp. 87–130.
Max Bluestone, ‘Libido Speculandi: Doctrine and Dramaturgy in Contemporary Interpretations of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus’, in Reinterpretations of Elizabethan Drama. Selected Papers from the English Institute, ed. Norman Rabkin (New York, 1969), pp. 33–88.
Roma Gill, ‘“Such Conceits as Clownage Keeps in Pay”: Comedy in Doctor Faustus’, in The Fool and the Trickster: Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford, ed. Paul V. A. Williams (Cambridge, 1979), pp. 55–63.
Michael Hattaway, ‘The Theology of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus’, Renaissance Drama n.s. 3 (1970), pp. 51–78.
J. H. Jones (ed.), The English Faust Book (Cambridge, 1994).
John Jump (ed.), Marlowe, ‘Doctor Faustus’: A Casebook (London, 1969).
Harry Levin, Christopher Marlowe: The Overreacher, ch. 5.
Gareth Roberts, ‘Necromantic Books: Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Agrippa of Nettesheim’, in Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture, ed. Darryll Grantley and Peter Roberts (Aldershot, 1996), pp. 148–71.
Wilbur Sanders, The Dramatist and the Received Idea: Studies in the Plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1968), chs. 10–12.
Edward A. Snow, ‘Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the Ends of Desire’, in Two Renaissance Mythmakers: Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, Selected Papers of the English Institute, ed. Alvin Kernan (Baltimore, 1977), pp. 70–110.
Standard Modern Editions
Charles R. Forker (ed.), Edward the Second, Revels Plays (Manchester, 1994).
Roma Gill (ed.), Edward II (Oxford, 1967).
Richard Rowland (ed.), Edward II, Complete Works, vol. 3 (Oxford, 1994).
Martin Wiggins and Robert Lindsey (eds.), Edward the Second (London, 1997).
Suggested Further Reading
Debra Belt, ‘Anti-theatricalism and Rhetoric in Marlowe’s Edward II’, English Literary History 21 (1991), pp. 134–60.
Gregory W. Bredbeck, Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton (Ithaca, NY, 1991).
Thomas F. Cartelli, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience (Philadelphia, 1991).
Robert Fricker, ‘The Dramatic Structure of Edward II’, English Studies 34 (1953), pp. 128–44.
Michael Hattaway, Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance (London, 1982), pp. 141–59.
Clifford Leech, ‘Marlowe’s Edward II: Power and Suffering’, Critical Quarterly 1 (1959), pp. 181–96.
J. F. McElroy, ‘Repetition, Contrariety and Individualization in Edward II’, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 24 (1984), pp. 205–24.
Standard Modern Editions
H. J. Oliver (ed.), Dido Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris, Revels Plays (Manchester, 1968).
Edward J. Esche (ed.), The Massacre at Paris, Complete Works, vol. 5 (Oxford, 1998).
Julia Briggs, ‘Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris: A Reconsideration’, Review of English Studies n.s. 34 (1983), pp. 257–78.
Richard Hillman, Shakespeare, Marlowe and the Politics of France (Basingstoke, 2002,), pp. 72–112.
Andrew M. Kirk, ‘Marlowe and the Disordered Face of French History’, Studies in English Literature 35 (1995), pp. 193–213.
Paul H. Kocher, ‘François Hotman and Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris’, PMLA 56 (1941), pp. 349–68.
___, ‘Contemporary Pamphlet Backgrounds for Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris’, Modern Language Quarterly 8 (1947), pp. 157–73, 309–18.
David Potter, ‘Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris and the Reputation of Henri III of France’, in Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture, ed. Darryll Grantley and Peter Roberts (Aldershot, 1996), pp. 148–71.
Judith Weil, Christopher Marlowe: Merlin’s Prophet (Cambridge, 1977).