Renaissance Quarterly, March 22nd, 1998
Roma Gill's new Oxford edition of Marlowe's few of Malta is a holiday event.
This is quite literally the case, since our leading Marlovian gleefully reports in her introduction to the fourth volume of The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe how she contended with the "strangely unsettling experience" of editing what "must surely be reckoned one of the most imaginative creations of Elizabethan drama": "There were no major textual problems to speak of," yet "Marlowe's play has no starting-point - it comes from nowhere." Eventually, her "uneasiness . . . formulated itself into the question W...
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