Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Christopher Marlowe: A Brief Chronology of His Life and Times A Note on the Text
Edward the Second
Appendix A: Marlowe’s Historical Sources
- From Raphael Holinshed, The Third Volume of Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587)
- From John Stow, The Annals of England (1592)
Appendix B: From Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados (1596)
Appendix C: The Diana-Actæon Myth
- From Arthur Golding, The XV Books of P. Ovidius Naso (1567)
- Sonnet V of Samuel Daniel’s Sonnet Sequence Delia (1592)
Appendix D: On Friendship
- Thomas Elyot, “The True Description of Amity or Friendship” (1580)
- From Francis Bacon, “Of Friendship” (1625)
- From Richard Barnfield, “The Tears of an Affectionate Shepherd Sick for Love or The Complaint of Daphnis for the Love of Ganymede” (1594)
Appendix E: Sodomy
- “An Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggerie” (1587)
- Edward Coke, “Of Buggery, or Sodomy” (1644)
- From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1583)
- From Thomas Beard, The Theatre of God’s Judgements (1597)
Appendix F: Kings and Tyrants
- From An Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1570)
- From Hugh Languet, Vindiciae contra Tyrannos: A Defence of Liberty against Tyrants (1648)
- From James I of England and VI of Scotland, The True Law of Free Monarchies (1603)
Works Cited and Further Reading