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From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20050515
Author:Reviewed by Margaret Grayson

The World of Christopher Marlowe. By David Riggs. Henry Holt. $30

David Riggs is a widely traveled lecturer and professor of English at Stanford University. His first book was "Ben Jonson: A Life." "The World of Christopher Marlowe" is a most scholarly work. The notes and index run to 50 pages. I am glad I read it and even more glad that I have finished it.

Christopher Marlowe's masterpieces, "Tamburlaine the Great," "Doctor Faustus," "The Jew of Malta" and "Edward II," "transformed the Elizabethan stage into a place of astonishing creativity." Marlowe is the undisputed "founder of English ...

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