QUOTABLE MARLOWE: An A to Z Collector’s Edition of Quotes from Christopher Marlowe (Quotable Wisdom Books)

An A to Z compendium of quotes from Christopher (Kit) Marlowe, English poet, playwright and secret agent, known for his "mighty line" -- author of Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, Edward the Second and other plays, as well as The Passionate Shepherd, Hero and Leander, and other poems. Suspected of authorship of parts of the Shakespeare works, Marlowe was a great writer in his own right, a champion of blank verse, a creator of beautiful lyrics, and a coiner of clever proverbs and sayings. Here is an ample selection of Marlowe's mighty lines and purple passages, arranged alphabetically by topic or keyword, with references, giving you points of interest and portals of entrance into Marlowe's world. Edited by Alex Ayres, a Harvard and UCLA educated writer and editor, whose previous bestsellers include The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain (Harper-Collins) and The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln (Penguin). This collection includes Marlowe's proverbs and sayings, which compress a maximum of meaning into a minimum of words. Also included are quotations from Marlowe's translation of Ovid's erotic love poems, which were banned and burned in Elizabethan England. A Quotable Wisdom Book.