The Jew of Malta (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Brown, John Russell, ed., Marlowe: Tamburlaine The Great; Edward The Second and The Jew Of Malta: A Casebook, Macmillan, 1982.

  This text offers a collection of critical essays on Marlowe’s plays.

• Cole, Douglas, Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy, Praeger, 1995.

  Cole’s book examines the major literary traditions of Marlowe’s era and how he transformed them into themes fitting his purpose.

• Hammill, Graham L., Sexuality and Form: Carvaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon, University of Chicago Press, 2000.

  This author uses Caravaggio’s paintings, Marlowe’s plays, and Bacon’s scientific treatises to explore the interdisciplinary connections between sexuality and violence.

• MacLure, Millar, ed., Christopher Marlowe, Routledge, 1995.

  This text provides a compilation of critical essays, presenting contemporary responses to the author’s work.

• Marlowe, Christopher, The Complete Plays, edited by J. B. Steane, Penguin, 1972.

  This work is a collection of all of Marlowe’s play, fully restored by recent scholarship.

• Shapiro, James C, Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare, Columbia University Press, 1991.

  Shapiro examines three of the greatest of the Renaissance playwrights, comparing their work within a historical context. Although Shapiro is occasionally forced into conjecture about his three subjects, much of what he says is grounded in historical fact.

• Thomas, Vivian, and William Tydman, eds., Christopher Marlowe: The Plays and Their Sources, Routledge, 1994.

  This book, a compilation of forty-two texts, includes all the major sources for Marlowe’s plays.