Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlane the Great was first performed in London in 1587, three years after the formal opening of English-Ottoman trade relations when William Harborne sailed for Constantinople as agent of the Levant Company.

Pope Adrian VI was a character in Christopher Marlowe's theatre play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ( published 1604 ).

* Wagner, fictional character in Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus, Goethe's Faust and Gounod's opera Faust

Queen Isabella appeared with a major role in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, and thereafter has been frequently used as a character in plays, books and films, often portrayed as beautiful but manipulative or wicked.

In Derek Jarman's 1991 film based on Marlowe's play, Isabella is played by actress Tilda Swinton as a ' femme fatale ' whose thwarted love for Edward causes her to turn against him and steal his throne.

" Character names are changed, plot points are altered ( Kate has two sisters for example, not one ), the play is set in Athens instead of Padua, Sly continues to comment on events throughout the play, and entire speeches are completely different ( lines from other plays are also found in A Shrew, especially from Marlowe's Tamburlaine ), all of which suggests that the author / reporter of A Shrew thought he ( or she ) was working on something different to Shakespeare's play, not simply transcribing it.

* Helen appears in various versions of the Faust myth, such as Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus-of which Faustus ' summoning Helen and courting her is one of the most well-known scenes, and which contributed the line " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships ...?

Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus exudes hubris, all the way until his final minutes of life.

Hylas is also mentioned in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II: " Not Hylas was more mourned for of Hercules / Than thou hast been of me since thy exile " ( Act I, Scene I, line 142-3 ), and in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 11.

* " Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris ", a Latin phrase from Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Sergestus also appears as a minor character in Christopher Marlowe's play Dido, Queen of Carthage.

It was alleged by medieval chroniclers that Edward II and Piers Gaveston were lovers, a rumour that was reinforced by later portrayals in fiction, such as Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II.

The portrayal of Gaveston as homosexual continued in fictional portrayals, such as Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II from the early 1590s, and the 1924 adaptation of that work by Bertolt Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger.

* June-Nathaniel Lee's play The Massacre at Paris ( about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, as was Marlowe's play of the same title ) is suppressed by the Stuart regime as anti-French.

Her martyr-like death scene has been compared to that of the titular king in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II.

It is also thought by scholars that the play was written to capitalise on the enormous success of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, which was first performed in 1596.

In Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, of about 1592, Faustus has a " Good Angel " and " Bad Angel " who offer competing advice ( Act 2, scene 1, etc .).

Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play.

The 1604 version is believed by most scholars to be closer to the play as originally performed in Marlowe's lifetime, and the 1616 version to be a posthumous adaptation by other hands.

Whatever the inspiration, the development of Marlowe's play is very faithful to the Faust Book especially in the way it mixes comedy with tragedy.

In addition to the staging of Marlowe's play, the book references the Thomas Mann novel Doctor Faustus, which is about a composer named Adrian Leverkühn who intentionally contracts syphilis.

* The A-text of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is officially published.

In Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus ( 1604 ), Faust conjures the shade of Helen.

For example, Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is quoted in the witchcraft scene (" Now Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do?

Also of interest are records of the purchase of expensive costumes and of stage properties, like the dragon in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, which provide insight into the staging of plays in the Elizabethan theatre.

Henslowe paid him for additions to Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus ; tradition, deferential to Marlowe, has assigned him the clown's bits in the 1616 edition.

Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus refers to the Queen of Sheba as Saba, when Mephistopheles is trying to persuade Faustus of the wisdom of the women with whom he supposedly shall be presented every morning.

The book is told in the form of Sacchetti's diary, and includes literary references to the story of Faust ( at one point the prisoners stage Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Sacchetti's friendship with ringleader Mordecai Washington parallels Faust's with Mephistopheles ).

2008's performance of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus won the Durham Student Theatre Award for Best Play.

Demogorgon's name was earlier invoked by Faustus in Scene III of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus ( 1590 ) when the eponymous Doctor summons Mephistopheles with a Latin incantation.

Thaïs and Alexander the Great are conjured by Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus for the amusement of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

That production was followed by Welles's and Edwin Denby's adaption of Horse Eats Hat and, in 1937, Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock.

In 2011, for example, the mainstage productions are Much Ado About Nothing, Faustus ( an adaptation of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus ), and Julius Caesar, and the major education programs are Romeo and Juliet and The Hamlet Seminar-2B ≠ 2B.

His life became the nucleus of the popular tale of Doctor Faust from circa the 1580s, notably culminating in Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus ( 1604 ) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's closet drama Faust ( 1808 ).

Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus of 1589 portrays Faust as the archetypical adept of Renaissance magic.

It is thus that the brightness of Helen passes through Marlowe's Faustus.

Marlowe's tragedies were exceptionally popular, such as Dr. Faustus and The Jew of Malta.

" from Marlowe's Faustus, Isaac Asimov jocularly coined the unit " millihelen " to mean the amount of beauty that can launch one ship.

** Marlowe's Dr. Faustus

Their first production would be Christopher Marlowe's Tragical History of Dr. Faustus which Welles directed and played the title role.

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