The complete plays

This is a definitive collection of Christopher Marlowe's plays.

His seven plays dramatize the fatal lure of potent forces, religious, occult and erotic.

In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas and the humiliation of Edward, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and helplessness, the sacred and its desecration.