February 9th Since last meeting, I have worked on transcribing the title page of The Arte of Warre, and have worked with this page in both oXygen and Leaf. As I have been working on the title page, I have
Alexander Krett – Spring 2024
Spring 2024 Internship – Weekly Summaries of Project Work
Text Analysis: Anaconda & Jupyter Notebooks
Try this at home! See below for instructions about how to download the Anaconda app so that you can run the following Jupyter Notebooks scripts to analyze either or both Christopher Marlowe’s and/or William Shakespeare’s dramatic corpus. Analysis options include
Conspiracies & Espionage
Encyclopedia
Bibliography Return Home
Family Tree
Historians could date the Marlowe family tree back to Christopher Marlowe’s grandparents. The first tree has the three names in which are related by marriage. By selecting one of the names, it will take you to their own family tree.
Conspiracies & Espionage 2
Marlowe’s Works 2
Our goal is to curate a collection of open-access editions of Marlowe’s literary works, performances, and resources. The following links lead to pages dedicated to given works that will continue to be populated with posts featuring variant reading editions, links
Family Tree 2
Historians could date the Marlowe family tree back to Christopher Marlowe’s grandparents. The first tree has the three names in which are related by marriage. By selecting one of the names, it will take you to their own family tree.
WAN – Test
WORD ADJACENCY NETWORKs — A Python Script¶ ADAPTED FOR USE WITH JUPYTER NOTEBOOK by Alexander Krett (This version does not stop the 5-word window at speech-breaks.) In the same folder as this program there should exist the following
Podcasts
Following are student-approved podcasts relating to Kit Marlowe’s life and times in early modern England and beyond. *This project is still in progress, but we wanted to share sooner than later (2 October 2023).
Ray Dufresne (FSU 2024)
Ray Dufresne is a Fall 2023 Project Intern for the Kit Marlowe Project. Their responsibilities include proofreading and correcting both the text and code (using TEI encoding methods) in student-generated submissions of Elizabethan Proclamations. Dufresne is cross-checking facsimiles of sixteenth-century,
“Hero and Leander”
Under construction: Insert short synopsis about the history of “Hero and Leander” here. Return to Works
Podcasts
Coming soon! A library of podcasts related to the study of premodern literature, history, philosophy, and culture!
Teaching with TAPAS
Interested in teaching with TEI? Here’s a short guest-post discussing how TAPAS supports The Kit Marlowe Project’s Mini-Archive.
How to: Images & Accessibility
Please click on the tiles below to learn how to take screenshots of images online and to add alt-text to make your work accessible to visually-impaired users.
Digital Commonplace Books
Please see below for sample Digital Commonplace Book Assignments and “How to” guides designed to help students learn to create accessible contributions! Return to Assignments and Activities Please note that all of the foregoing teaching resources have been authored and
Spring 2023 Project Team
The KMP is grateful to the following students in Kristen Abbott Bennett’s DGHM 110 Introduction to Digital Humanities class at Framingham State University who contributed to the Mini-Archive by transcribing and taking a first pass at encoding a series of
Henry VI, Part I.txt
Click here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe’s, Thomas Nashe’s, and William Shakespeare’s I Henry VI (Regular Spelling). The file has undergone the following data cleaning protocols in order to make it suitable for text analysis: Data
Marlowe Bibliography Online
The Marlowe Bibliography Online is an initiative of the Marlowe Society of America and the University of Melbourne. Its purpose is to facilitate scholarship on the works of Christopher Marlowe by providing a searchable annotated bibliography of relevant scholarship. To
Latinx Shakespeares
Latinx Shakespeares are productions and adaptations of Shakespeare’s works that are made Latinx through settings, themes, and dramaturgy. This archive includes Latinx Shakespeares plus Latinx-authored and/or Latinx themed productions and adaptations of Shakespeare, as well as of other writers.
Marlowepedia (English/Deutsch)
“Marlowepedia” is an dual-language wiki-style encyclopedia of all things Marlowe created by Patricia Hoda. One may easily toggle between English and German language translations of site content that also includes a Bibliografie, or database featuring over 2,000 titles related to
World Web/IDEM
The WordWeb/IDEM database maps the dense network of quotations, cross-references and in-jokes that links hundreds of English plays from Shakespeare’s time. If a comedy or tragedy was a hit on the Elizabethan stage, names and phrases could go viral: Thomas
Mayors & Sheriffs of London
The Mayors and Sheriffs of London (MASL) is a searchable, open-accessdatabase (https://masl.library.utoronto.ca) of information on London’smayors, sheriffs, and wardens from 1190 to the present. It was originallylaunched in 2009, covering the years 1190–1558 only, but was subsequentlyextended to the present;
Meggan Law, Project Intern, Spring 2023
Getting Started: 2/1 to 2/8 The first weeks of the internship was mostly setting up and getting settled. Downloading the PDFs of the plays in order to convert them to Word Files and .txt files was the first step, along
Ouid’s Elegies
Following are TEI encoded, original spelling, semi-diplomatic mini-editions of Christopher Marlowe’s translation of Ovid’s first five elegies: Elegy 1, Elegy 2, Elegy 3, Elegy 4, Elegy 5. This is a work in progress begun by Caroline Hawkes (Framingham State University
Jew of Malta.txt
Click here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe Jew of Malta (Regular Spelling). Click Here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe’s Jew of Malta (Original spelling). This regular-spelling edition was originally downloaded from The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital
Doctor Faustus.txt
Click here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (regular spelling). Click Here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (Original spelling). This regular-spelling edition was originally downloaded from The Folger Shakespeare Library’s
Dido.txt
Click here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe’s collaboration, Dido, Queen of Carthage (regular spelling). Click Here to download a “clean” .txt document of Christopher Marlowe’s and Thomas Nashe’s collaboration, Dido, Queen of Carthage (Original
Files for Text Analysis
Download Marlowe’s Dramatic Corpus Marlowe’s single-authored plays were all initially created by the Folger Shakespeare’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama. The Henry VI trilogy, co-authored with William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, was initially created by Internet Shakespeare Editions.
Project Update: July 2022
Students and Interns Grow The Kit Marlowe Project across Content Areas! The hiatus between the 2020 Project Update and this one is not due to inactivity – quite the opposite. We have had three Project Interns and students from the
IDEAH: KMP Origins
Read about the Kit Marlowe Project’s origins in “‘Seeds together driven’: The Kit Marlowe Project’s Origins and Metamorphoses” published in Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), Vol. 2.1, 2021, doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.665a6b94.
XPath Overview
The following slideshow gives you an overview of how to extract data from tagged elements and attributes in a TEI-encoded document using oXygen software. This “how to” guide was created by Ellie Lynch and Nick Ribeiro, students in Dr. Kristen
Reginald Scot, The Discouerie of Witchcraft (1584)
Click on the tiles below to find excerpts from Reginald Scot’s 1584 The Discouerie of Witchcraft featuring an epistle dedicated to Sir Roger Manwood. Discouerie is a skeptical treatise about the existence of witchcraft. Scot shows himself to be knowledgeable
Babington Plot
The Babington Plot was an incident in which Anthony Babington and the Plough Group planned to assassinate Elizabeth I, install Queen Mary of Scots onto the throne, and restore Catholicism to England. In 1570, Pope Pius V declared the Protestant
May 2, 2021
No Prompt The final entry required for my internship journal focuses on translating my internship experience onto my resumé, so this post is specifically about my last project instead since my other entry will not discuss it. The last project
Cobb, Christopher J. et. al.
Cobb, Christopher J. and M. Thomas Hester, Renaissance Papers 2006, Camden House, 2007, pp. 1-8.
Scott-Warren, Jason
“Meet the Chillesters: The Printed Counterfeit in Early Modern London [with Illustrations].” English Literary Renaissance, vol. 46, no. 2, 2016, pp. 225–248., doi:10.1111/1475-6757.12065.
Henry Chillester, Youthes Witte (1581)
Henry Chillester. Youthes Witte, or, The vvitte of grene youth choose gentlemen, and mez-dames which of them shall best lyke you compiled and gathered together, London, John Wolfe, 1581, STC 5137.5. Transcribed from facsimile edition in EEBO; original in British
What Would You Sell Your Soul For? (An Engaging Exploration Into “Doctor Faustus”)
This quiz, “What Would You Sell Your Soul For? (An Engaging Exploration Into “Doctor Faustus”)“, made by Kit Marlowe Project Intern Eli Paré for the Spring 2021 semester draws on quotes from the A-Text version of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
April 25, 2021
Prompt: How does what you are learning relate to your coursework? Now that we are nearly at the end of the semester, it is almost time for final papers. For English Renaissance Literature, the class I have had the pleasure
April 18, 2021
Prompt: What workplace-related behaviors and attitudes are you experiencing? Have you had experience with this kind of workplace before? If not, how is it similar to and different from previous workplace experiences? Obviously these are unprecedented times, so having a
Eli M. Paré, Project Intern
As part of my enrollment in ENGL 495 Internship in English, I write a weekly journal about my work on the Kit Marlowe Project. The journal assignment requires I drawn on a number of prompts over the course of the
January 31, 2021
Prompt: At the beginning: what are your expectations, hopes, and concerns for the internship? I met with Professor Bennett on Thursday and we discussed what parts of the Kit Marlowe Project need some love this semester. The top priority is
February 7, 2021
No Prompt On Tuesday, Professor Bennett emailed me to redirect my focus for the week. She is giving a talk at the National University of Ireland, Galway on March 5th on teaching scholarly editing. So now the focus is on
February 14, 2021
Prompt: What are you finding easy about your internship, and why? What do you find difficult, and why? So far, the easiest thing about the Kit Marlowe Project has been editing the website itself. There are videos on the site
February 21, 2021
No Prompt During our meeting on Thursday Professor Bennett decided that editing the content of the Mini-Archive Posts would take serious research and at this point it is so close to the conference date that a project like that is
March 14, 2021
Prompt: What are you learning—not just doing, but learning—in your internship experience? Working with the Digital Resources , I’ve learned a lot about what resources are available to me as a student. I already knew a lot of these resources,
March 21, 2021
Prompt: What is exactly as you expected? What is surprising? What is positive or negative about these realities? The extensive nature of the research included in the Kit Marlowe Project is exactly as thorough as I expected and simultaneously surprisingly
March 28, 2021
Prompt: How does what you are learning relate to your career plans? What have you discovered about your preferences for type of work and work environment? What aspects of your career plans has this internship confirmed, and which (if any)
Quintessence
Project Quintessence is an excellent tool for text-based data analysis. Quintessence, produced by UC Davis Datalab, draws on 60,000 texts to generate in-depth analytics for word meanings, word frequencies and text topics. The image here is a graph from the
MoEML Tutorials
Network Test
TEI Metadata & Personography
The following guide walks one through adding metadata to TEI encoding projects, as well as instructions for adding persons to The Kit Marlowe Project’s personography. Return to Teaching Resources
Teaching TEI
The following slideshow offers ‘How to’ guides for getting started encoding with TEI. This presentation walks users through encoding Div Structures, Forme Works, Inline Features, plus how to use CSS to encode Layout and Style. All guides have been directly
EEBO-TCP Editorial Assignment
The EEBO-TCP’s open-source collection of OCR transcriptions of early modern texts offers an ideal opportunity to introduce students to scholarly editing practices without requiring specialized encoding skills or software. Why teach editorial methods in an early modern literature classroom? Teaching
Syllabi
Following are the Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 syllabi for an interdisciplinary Learning Community entitled “A Rogue’s Progress: Mapping Kit Marlowe’s Social Networks.” These proto-digital humanities classes were taught at Stonehill College and trace a trajectory of exploratory pedagogy that
Middling Culture Social Status Calculator
Take the Social Status Calculator for Early Modern Individuals and find out which of the ten classes of early modern society your answers put you in! The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
How to: Transcription
The following slides offer instructions for creating a diplomatic transcription of an early modern text in preparation for later encoding using TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) methods. It has been adapted from The Map of Early Modern London’s “How to” guide
Document Analysis
Learning how to observe and describe a text’s discrete features prepares one for any kind of editorial project. The document analysis questionnaire linked below is designed to help one gather preliminary information about a text and make hypotheses about its
Editorial Methods & TEI
This section features in-class activities designed to introduce students to descriptive bibliography, “how to” guides for transcribing and encoding diplomatic editions of early English texts using TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) methods, and scalable assignments that can be used to teach
Marlowe as a spy?
Following Park Honan and others, we have taken Marlowe’s supposed career in espionage seriously. See below for information that supports this argument, plus some fun conspiracy theories. Early Life as a Spy Learn about Christopher Marlowe and his early
KMP Events & Publications
Here you’ll find posts about Kit Marlowe Project-related special events and publications. Return to About The Kit Marlowe Project is directed by Kristen Abbott Bennett and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
CURAH: Collaboration in Undergraduate Research
In Fall 2020, Kristen Abbott Bennett wrote a blog for The Arts and Humanities Division of The Council on Undergraduate Research about force-multiplying collaboration in undergraduate classrooms. Click here to read the full article. Return to About The Kit Marlowe
Experimental Digital Pedagogies
Return to About The Kit Marlowe Project is directed by Kristen Abbott Bennett and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Project Updates
Return to About
Project Inception and Reflections
Return to About
Shakespeare Reloaded CPB Assignments
Shakespeare Reloaded offers several activities that generate novel perspectives for class discussions. In university classrooms, one might assign activities for homework and then use them as a jumping off point for class discussion.
#ShaxRedrawn
Journal of Marlowe Studies
Journal of Marlowe Studies publishes peer-reviewed essays on the poems and plays of Christopher Marlowe with the support of both the Marlowe Society (which is based in the UK) and the Marlowe Society of America. We do not accept essays on
Project Update: September 2020
New Research Resources, Teaching TEI on Zoom, and Fall 2020 Project Intern Research Resources Just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shift to remote teaching in Spring 2020, Kit Marlowe Project Assistant Andrew Jeromski (Framingham State University ’19, G
Shakespeare and Early Modern Streams (performance)
Thea Buckley has generously curated Shakespeare and Early Modern Streams featuring streaming productions of Shakespeare’s and his contemporaries works. The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Graphemica – For people who ♥ letters, numbers, punctuation, &c
Graphemica is a great resource for finding Unicode for especially tricky special characters and printer’s ornaments. Placeholder Click the image to visit Graphemica, and be sure to click the letters of its logo while you’re there! The Kit Marlowe Project
Francis, Duke of Anjou
Francis, the Duke of Anjou and Alençon, son of France’s King Henry II and Catherine de Medici was born under the name ‘Hercule’ in 1555. As a child he suffered from various ailments, spinal issues, and the loss of his
Spring 2020: FSU Contributors
The Spring 2020 Project Team would like to thank Rachel Dankert (Folger Shakespeare Library) for providing research support during the COVID-19 crisis. This year’s goal was to create encyclopedia entries and to update existing pages. The Spring 2020 project team
Research Video Tutorials
Following are “How to” videos to help you search and cite materials from open-source digital knowledge bases including the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital Image Collection and Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama, as well as The Map of Early
Chettle, Henry (Draft)
Henry Chettle is a well-known Elizabethan printer and playwright connected with many high-profile writers including William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Nashe, Anthony Munday, and Thomas Heywood. Chettle established himself as a great collaborator, working with many authors and contributing to
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was born Elizabeth Tudor on September 7, 1533. She was the first daughter of King Henry VIII and only child of his second wife, Anne Boleyn. King Henry had her mother executed when Elizabeth was three
Milton, John (Draft)
John Milton, born in 1608, was an English writer of great renown. Known for his prose and his poetry, Milton’s writing offered a re-presentation and critique of political, social, religious, educational, and historical issues. He encouraged readers to parse out
Rome in Elizabethan England
While Queen Elizabeth I ruled England, her person and government gave playwrights, pamphleteers, and others contributing to popular culture much fodder with which to debate the country’s ethics, religion, and politics. Of course, criticizing Queen and country was risky business. Rome
Hathaway, Anne
Born in either 1555 or 1556, Anne Hathaway, also recorded as Agnes, was the eldest of her eight siblings. She lived on a farm formerly known as Hewlands, but now is called Anne Hathaway’s Cottage. Hewlands functioned as a sheep
Murder
The documentation surrounding Marlowe’s death does not rule out murder. Marlowe’s rumored work as a spy for Elizabeth likely meant he had sensitive information that may have jeopardized one of the men present, or their employer. Killing Marlowe efficiently erases
Authorship (DRAFT)
“Shakespeare’s” Henry VI isn’t Authorship has become one of the most heated topics in Elizabethan drama today, inviting readers to take note of recent evidence pointing to collaborators of famous works, previously defined by one author. The contributions of Christopher
Cambridge University
Nestled next to the River Cam, the Cambridge University of medieval England was a completely different institution than today. In its earliest days, the University had no private premises; it used community churches such as Great St. Mary’s and St.
CPB Presentations
Assignment Per the syllabus, you will sign up for one day when you will lead class discussion on the assigned reading for 15 minutes. Depending upon our learning targets for a given day, you may work with a partner and
Encyclopedia Entry +
Following are two assignment options developed for Kristen Abbott Bennett’s Spring 2020 Shakespeare course at Framingham State University. The first invites students to research and generate an encyclopedia entry; the second invites them to search for gaps in the knowledge
KMP Project Contributions
KMP Assignment * Spring 2020 Option A: Encyclopedia entry You’ll research and write a 300-500 word encyclopedia entry on the topic of your choice. Your entry will include permalinks to relevant materials, and any images you include will have alt-text
Sample Commonplace Books
This slideshow offers an overview of early modern commonplacing, research practices, and sample prompts for students to create multi-media class commonplace books using open-access digital resources. Students’ digital commonplace books offer starting points for generating project contribution ideas from encyclopedia
Commonplace Book Assignments
These assignments recombine Research Based Learning (RBL) approaches with “maker” practices inspired by the digital humanities to help students engage cognitively and affectively with early modern literature and history. “CPB/DB Assignments” introduces the concept of early modern commonplace books, plus
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Kit Marlowe Project Contributions
Following are sample assignments that have been used to help students generate original scholarship suitable for publication here on The Kit Marlowe Project, but may be adapted to suit other student-driven digital resources. Please note that all of the foregoing
Folger Digital Image Collection Tutorials
Searching primary source databases can be tricky primarily because one is working with a combination of historical and modern cataloging conventions. Following are links to research videos that show you how to search the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital Image Collection,
Shakespeare Reloaded
Shakespeare Reloaded is a rich resource offering both teachers and students tools, games, theories, and techniques for generating imaginative environments from which to engage with Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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Shakespeare Census
The Shakespeare Census attempts to locate and describe all extant copies of all editions of Shakespeare’s works through 1700, excluding the folios. We include all items attributed to Shakespeare in print during the period, but not those attributed to him
Rams Write (writing resource)
Rams Write is a by-students-for-students LibGuide published by Framingham State University that includes tips for paper organization, revision, clarity, frequently confused words, and grammar and mechanics. Click the image or the link above to visit Rams Write! The Kit Marlowe
Lost Plays Database
The Lost Plays Database is a wiki-style forum for scholars to share information about lost plays in England, 1570-1642. Its purpose is to add lost plays to scholarly discussions of early modern theatrical activity (“Home”). The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Resources
The Folger Shakespeare Library hosts a number of digital resources. In this post you’ll find links and descriptions to all of Folger Library’s digital resources as well as links to the Kit Marlowe Project’s tutorial videos for navigating these websites.
British Library, Shakespeare and Renaissance Writers
The British Library offers accessible blogs about early modern authors in historical, literary, and critical contexts in the subsection entitled “Explore Shakespeare and Renaissance Writers in Context.” Placeholder Click the image here to visit the British Library’s page on Discovering
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
About: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital reconstruction of the early modern social network that scholars and students from all over the world can collaboratively expand, revise, curate, and critique. Unlike published prose, Six Degrees is extensible, collaborative,
Conspiracies & Espionage
McCabe, Richard A.
McCabe, Richard A. “Elizabethan Satire and the Bishops’ Ban of 1599.” The Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 11, Special Number, 1981, pp. 188-193, JSTOR, doi: 10.2307/3506267, www.jstor.org/stable/3506267?seq=1.
Ovid’s Amores Elegies [sic.] trans. by Christopher Marlowe (c. 1599)
The Classic Literature Library offers what appears to be a semi-diplomatic translation of Christopher Marlowe’s translation of Ovid’s Elegies, also known as the Amores, published “At Middleborough” by “I.D. and C.M.” The Classic Literature Library editors claim the work was
CURAH: “Kit Marlowe Project is built by Undergraduates”
In Fall 2018, Ian F. MacInnes of the Arts and Humanities Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research interviewed Project Founder, Kristen Abbott Bennett. Please click here to read the full article! Return to About The Kit Marlowe Project is
Early Modern Digital Collections
Wynken de Worde, aka Sarah Werner, has collated an exceptional list of open-access Early Modern Digital Collections. All of these resources feature access to early modern primary texts. Placeholder Click the image here to visit Wynken de Word! The Kit
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern
Project Update: May 2019
New Publication Rowan Pereira (Stonehill 2019) stayed on as Project Intern for the Spring 2019 semester, driving to Framingham weekly, and completing an independent transcription and encoding of Henry Petowe’s previously unpublished additions to Marlowe’s posthumously published poem, “Hero and
Henry Petowe. The Second Part of Hero and Leander. Conteyning their further Fortunes. (1598)
Fall 2018 Kit Marlowe Project Intern Rowan Pereira (Stonehill College ’19) transcribed, edited, and encoded Henry Petowe’s continuation of Marlowe’s poem “Hero and Leander” printed by Thomas Purfoot for Andrew Harris in 1598 (STC 19807) using the Early English Books
Henry Petowe, The Second Part of Hero and Leander (1598)
Dido, Queen of Carthage
Dido, Queen of Carthage was written by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, likely during their time together at school in Cambridge. The play was published in 1594 by Widow Orwin for Thomas Woodcocke. According to the ESTC, only three copies of this
Fall 2018: Framingham State University Contributors
Students in Kristen Abbott Bennett’s Fall 2018 ENGL 220, Shakespeare course at Framingham State University contributed multiple exhibits exploring Henry the Sixth, Part One. Works Page design and editorial rationale: Andrew Jeromski, 2019 1H6, Performance (Christen Caragian, 2019; Elizabeth Paulsen,
Henry VI, Part One (3.3)
Click HERE to read our version of 1H6, 3.3. This scene was transcribed, annotated, and edited using The Norton Facsmile: The First Folio of Shakespeare, prepared by Charlton Hinman as a copy-text (1968). We created a Dramatis Personae, inserted stage directions, rearranged lines, glossed unfamiliar
MacGregor, Geddes
MacGregor, Geddes. The Thundering Scot. Westminster Press, 1957.
McLaren, Anne N.
McLaren, Anne N. Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth 1558–1585, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Joan of Arc, Saint
“Joan of Arc, Saint” Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, 2017.
Malay, Jessica L.
Malay, Jessica L. Prophecy and Sibylline imagery in the Renaissance: Shakespeare’s Sibyls. Routledge, 2010.
Gutierrez, Nancy A.
Gutierrez, Nancy A. “Gender and Value in 1 Henry VI: The Role of Joan de Pucelle.” Theatre Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, 1990, pp. 183-193. JSTOR, jstor.org/stable/3207754.
War of the Roses Quiz Part 1
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Pernoud, Regine
Pernoud, Regine. “Saint Joan of Arc.” New Catholic Encyclopedia, Gale, 2003, Biography In Context, cvdvn.files.wordpress.com.
The Ultimate Henry VI, Part One Quiz
Step into the world of Henry VI, Part One with our interactive quiz! Test your knowledge with character quotes, vocabulary, figuring out the descendants of Edward III, and fun facts! Bring the War of the Roses to life! Are you
Which Henry VI Part One Character Are You? Quiz
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Cooke, Dominic
“Henry VI Part 1.” Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, written by Ben Power, directed by Dominic Cooke, WNET Thirteen, 2016.
Milivojević, Nikita
Henry VI, Part 1. By William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Anonymous, directed by Nikita Milivojević, performances by Predrag Ejdus, Tanasije Uzunovic, Hadzi Nenad Maricic, National Theatre in Belgrade, 23 April 2012, Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK.
Bagnall, Nick
Henry VI, Part I: Harry the Sixth. By William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Anonymous directed by Nick Bagnall, performances by Graham Butler, Garry Cooper, Beatriz Romilly, Globe Theatre Players, 23 Jul. 2013, Theatre Royal, Brighton, UK.
Howell, Jane
The First Part of King Henry VI. Directed by Jane Howell, performances by Brenda Blethyn, Peter Benson, Julia Foster, BBC, 1983.
Game of Thrones
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Henry VI, Part I – BBC (2016)
Dominic Cooke (The Crucible) directed the fifth installment of BBC’s Hollow Crown: “Henry VI Part I” in 2016. The Shakespeare adaptation stars Tom Sturridge (Being Julia) as King Henry VI, Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) as Queen Margaret, and Hugh Bonneville
Henry VI Part 1 – Shakespeare’s Globe (2012)
Nikita Milivojević’s stage adaptation, translated from Serbian to English by Zoran Paunović, and part of the 2012 Globe to Globe Festival, was performed by the National Theatre in Association with Laza Kostic Fund, from Belgrade, Serbia. Starring Hadzi Nenad Maricic
The First Part of Henry VI – BBC (1983)
Jane Howell’s (Screenplay, Class Act) adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part I, stars Peter Benson (Heartbeat) as the titular King Henry VI, Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice) as Joan La Pucelle, and Julia Foster (The Loneliness of the Long
Henry VI, Part I – Globe Theatre (2013)
Director Nick Bagnall’s intense adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part I is a fast-paced performance with plenty of sword fights, a young king, and a captivating martyr. The show stars Graham Butler as the naïve and quiet King Henry VI,
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Henry VI, Part One. Folger Digital Texts
Click on the image below to read Henry VI, Part One on the Folger Digital Texts interface. This text has been transcribed, edited, and encoded; it is fully searchable in either original or modernized spellings. Return to Works
1H6 Contexts
Return to Henry the Sixth, Part 1
1 H6 Performance
Henry VI, Part One has been performed thousands of times since its first publication. In today’s world, we are lucky to have access to the play without traveling to a theatre. Here are four different versions that have been filmed
1H6 Editions
1H6 Assignment: Contribute to the KMP site
Kristen Abbott Bennett ENG 200: Shakespeare, Framingham State University Formal Assignment 4 Due: 11/30/18 Assignment: You may work in pairs, or groups of 3-4, to complete ONE of the following assignment options: Curate an online collection of available full-text editions
Pereira, October 28-November 3, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Stonehill College ’19 Date Time 10/30 4:00-5:30; 7:00-8:00 (2.5) 10/31 2:30-4:30 (2) 11/3 1:00-3:15 (2.25) Tuesday (10/30): I went back into TAPAS and changed the descriptions of each of the editions of Faustus, and
Pereira, October 21-27, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Stonehill College ’19 Date Time 10/25 3:00-4:30 (1.5) 10/26 1:45-3:30 (1.75) Thursday (10/25): I’ve finished both editions of the Faustus texts, so now I’m moving to the second part of the internship. I’m going
Pereira, October 15-20, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Stonehill College ’19 Date Time 10/15 2:30-4:30 (2) 8:15-9:15 (1) 10/16 2:30-5:00 (2.5) Monday (10/15): I’ve printed out both the TAPAS version and the pdf version of the 1696 edition of Doctor Faustus, and
Pereira, October 10-13, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Stonehill ’19 Date Time 10/10 2:30-4:30 (2) 10/11 2:15- 4:15 (2) 10/12 1:15-4:00 (2.75) 10/13 1:15-4:00 (2.75) Wednesday (10/10): I’ve finished going back through the text, and am about halfway through the code. So
Pereira, October 1, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Stonehill ’19 Day Time 10/1 2:15:3:30 (1.25) Monday (10/1): I’m unfortunately still going through the 1664 Faustus text for the second time. I’m trying to go through a section normally and then again backward to
Pereira, September 23-29, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Fall 2018, Stonehill ’19 Date Time 9/23 11:00-12:15 (1.25) 9/25 1:45-3:45 (2) 9/28 1:00-4:00 (3) 9/29 10:00-12:00 (2) Sunday (9/23): Professor Bennett and I had a Skype call to go over any questions that
Pereira, September 16-22, 2018
Date Time 9/16 7:00-9:30 (2.5) 9/18 3:00-5:30 (2.5) 9/20 2:30-4:15 (1.75) Sunday (9/16): I edited the rest of the 1664 edition of Doctor Faustus on paper, so my next step here would be to go through the code
Pereira, September 12-14, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Fall 2018, Stonehill ’19 Date Time 9/13 3:15-4:30 (1.25) Thursday (9/13): I started to edit the 1664 edition of Faustus. I printed the TAPAS version of the document and the pdf version, and made it up
Pereira, October 15-20, 2018
Rowan Pereira, Project Intern, Fall 2018, Stonehill ’19 Date Time 10/15 2:30-4:30 (2) 8:15-9:15 (1) 10/16 2:30-5:00 (2.5) Monday (10/15): I’ve printed out both the TAPAS version and the pdf version of the 1696 edition of Doctor Faustus, and
Project Update: October 2018
Much has been going on behind-the-scenes at The Kit Marlowe Project this Fall, but we’re excited about the progress we’re making! Because I (Project Director) left Stonehill College in August to accept a Visiting Assistant Professor position at Framingham State
Review: Burton and Coghill’s Faustus
Film review: Doctor Faustus In the movie Doctor Faustus, co-directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill, Faustus sells his soul to the devil (David McIntosh), in exchange for Mephistopheles’ service (Andreas Teuber). Coghill adapted Christopher Marlowe’s play, likely written in the 1590’s
Activities
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Assignments & Activities
Following are sample assignments and in-class activities that require no special software or encoding expertise and are suitable for English and General Education classroom use. Please note that all of the foregoing teaching resources have been authored and should be
Activities
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Assignments and Tip Sheets
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Of Pilcrows: Digital resources for early modern plays on page and stage
Ҧ This is a list of online databases, catalogues, projects, images, video, reference works, &c, for the study of early modern plays at the intersection of performance and print. Two caveats: (1) it is not an exhaustive list; and (2)
Faustus: Scholarship
Faustus: Performance
Faustus: Editions
Click on the following tiles to select digitized editions of Marlowe’s Faustus:
NYU Libraries: Christopher Marlowe
New York University’s Libraries have created a brilliant Lib Guide that offers a compendium of modern critical resources for learning about Kit Marlowe’s life and times. It’s a great starting point for researching any Marlowe-related topic. The Kit Marlowe Project
Image Library
The following images have been generated to function in web apps like Knightlab’s Timeline JS and others. Most are linked to their corresponding pages and posts on The Kit Marlowe Project Website.
Post-Launch Reflections: May 2018
Joining students in metacognitive reflection The issue of open access is quite possibly my biggest takeaway of this course..Information is something that shouldn’t be limited. Making knowledge accessible to all is so important and interesting from an ethical perspective.
Why Kit Marlowe?
Why Kit Marlowe now? Christopher (aka Kit) Marlowe was born in 1564 and died dramatically in 1593. He was one of William Shakespeare’s most interesting contemporaries; they surely exchanged ideas around the playhouses and taverns. Marlowe was also close with
The history of Doctor. John Faustus compyled in verse, very pleasant and delightful (1696)
There is only one extant copy remaining of following anonymously written verse adaptation of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus in the British Library. This text was reprinted by an anonymous publisher in 1696 from a 1664 edition also featured in this Mini-Archive. Students in
The history of Doctor John Faustus compiled in verse, very pleasant and delightfull (1664)
There is only one extant copy remaining of following anonymously written The history of Doctor John Faustus compiled in verse, very pleasant and Delightful in the British Library. This text appears to have been at least somewhat popular as it was
Proofreading Ographies
Profs. Bennett & Hamlin * Rogues Progress * Spring 2018 Proofreading “Ography” Contributions In the Rogues’ OneDrive, you’ll find the master “ography” spreadsheet. This file contains The Kit Marlowe Project’s Personography, Placeography, and Bibliography. Currently, we’re editing the Personography. Here
World History Encyclopedia
The World History Encyclopedia, formerly the Ancient History Encyclopedia, is a useful resource for looking up classical figures. Click their logo here to visit their webpage and explore! The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
Proofing Faustus Encodings: A Checklist
Profs. Hamlin & Bennett Rogue’s Progress Spring 2018 Proofreading Faustus Encodings: A Checklist First: Check to make sure your file is valid. Correct any errors until you get that happy green square at the bottom of your screen. Although validity
Mapping Faustus with Recogito
To develop this map, we used Pelagios Commons’s Recogito tool, which is a beta program. We converted the EEBO-TCP’s 1604 version of Doctor Faustus into a text file and uploaded it into Recogito. The interface automatically highlighted what appeared to be place names
Transcribing Early Modern Texts for Encoding
Part 1: Rules for transcribing early modern texts for publication on the KMP site and TAPAS platform Part One of this transcription guide closely follows the “How-to #0: Rules for transcription” guide authored by Janelle Jenstad and Martin Holmes at
Edward the Second, EMED (1594)
This transcribed, encoded, and edited edition of Edward II has been made available by The Folger’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama. It follows the 1594 edition first printed by Robert Robinson for William Jones. Return to Edward II Return to Works
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1. Project Gutenberg (1605)
Here one may link to a digitized edition of Richard Jones’s 1605 publication of Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 written by Christopher Marlowe and edited by Alexander Dyce. Jones took the two parts of Tamburlaine the Great and printed them together, omitting gestures.
Works Web Exhibits Assignment
Kristen Abbott Bennett Rogues Progress Works Assignment Spring 2018 Creating Web Exhibits for Kit Marlowe’s Works Project Due: 3/15/18 Each group will be assigned one of Christopher Marlowe’s works. Your first step will be to research the publication, performance,
Kit Marlowe Scavenger Hunt
Kristen Abbott Bennett Rogues Progress Scavenger Hunt Fall 2018 Kit Marlowe (1564-1593) Scavenger Hunt Today we’re going on an internet scavenger hunt to learn what we can about Christopher, aka “Kit” Marlowe. You’re going to start with our website and
MoEML Link Assignment
Kristen Abbott Bennett Rogues Progress MoEML Assignment Spring 2018 Links to locations in the Map of Early Modern London’s Gazeteer Each group will carefully read each assigned encyclopedia entry and cross-check all place names to determine their geographical locations. Students
Editing the Bibliography
EDITING THE GENERAL RESOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY IN WORD PRESS The editing process is straightforward: you may click on the entry and see the citation. When you are logged in to the site, you will have an option to edit. Before making
Working backwards & Dr. Who
Working backwards & Dr. Who The first activity we did in this class was bibliography editing and when I first learned that was the plan, I had mixed feelings. At first I thought that it was going to be
Dangerous Knowledge Discoveries
Taylor Long Professor Bennett LC 347-A 20 February 2017 Unit 1: Dangerous Knowledge Discoveries The Dangerous Knowledge unit introduced the class to the digital humanities, a growing field with a need for expansion. The Kit Marlowe Project will create an
A Metacognitive Salute to Marlowe & Co.
Metacognitive Essay #1 A Rogue’s Process Justin M. Boure Professor Bennett A Metacognitive Salute to Marlowe & Co. The bibliography editing activities made me reconsider how tedious, yet, important it is to ensure that citations are up to date with
Credits: Spring 2018
The Spring 2018 “Rogues” worked collaboratively in the same groups throughout the semester. Instructors: Kristen Abbott Bennett, Scott Hamlin TA: Rowan Pereira (Stonehill ’19) Web Support: Amanda Beauregard (Fellow, Digital Innovation Lab, Stonehill ’18) Graphic Design: Jonathan Letourneau (Fellow, Digital
Students reflect on “Dangerous Knowledge”: March 2018
In the first unit for the Spring 2018 semester, “Dangerous Knowledge,” students were introduced to Kit Marlowe by embarking on a Scavenger Hunt that used content designed by the Fall 2017 Rogues as a starting point (the plural “rogues” has evolved
Credits: Fall 2017
The Fall 2017 “Rogues” worked collaboratively in the same groups throughout the semester. The team names reflect the web exhibits that each group researched, designed, and posted here; they worked in the same groups to encode both Francis Meres’s Wit’s Treasury and
About Editions
Stephen Reimer’s (University of Alberta) course page for “Manuscript Studies: Medieval and Early Modern” includes a concise overview of different kinds of editions one might produce from early texts. Click this image, taken from the Petowe continuation of Marlowe’s Hero
“To do” list: FALL 18
Rowan & Ethan “How to” guides for GraphCommons, Hypothesis Would you like to schedule special showing of Gutenberg flick? Notes: Game:textadventures.co.ukmsilva1@students.stonehill.edunotshakespeare1
Image Credits
Image Credits KMP Home Page Mini-Archive tile: Photograph by Kathryn Joy (Stonehill ’17) Works tile: Christopher Marlowe, The Massacre at Paris (fragment). c. 1590. LUNA: Folger Digital Image Collection, v.b.8, luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/FOLGERCM1~6~6~930091~163116:The-massacre-at-Paris–fragment—m?sort=call_number%2Cmpsortorder1%2Ccd_title%2Cimprint&qvq=q:j.b.8;sort:call_number%2Cmpsortorder1%2Ccd_title%2Cimprint;lc:FOLGERCM1~6~6&mi=0&trs=2. Accessed 6 March 2018. Family Tree, Social Networks, Conspiracy Theories, Espionage, Game, and
Ideas in Motion: Looking back at Fall 2017
The Fall 2017 Rogues enjoyed a student-centered learning experience developing content that interested them about Marlowe’s life and times. Building the Bibliography and Web Exhibits In the first unit, “Rogue, Poet, Spy,” students went on virtual scavenger hunts to learn
Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two, Ed. U.M. Ellis-Fermor (1930)
This is an electronic facsimile of Una Mary Ellis-Fermor’s 1930 edition of Tamburlaine the Great in Two Parts, first published by Gordian Press and reprinted in 1966. The edition is available electronically thanks to the Marlowe Society of America. Return to Tamburlaine the
Tamburlaine The Great – The Second Part, Project Gutenberg (1850)
This edition of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, The Second Part was edited and modernized by Alexander Dyce in 1850. It was later transcribed and published on Project Gutenberg in 2008. Return to Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two Return to Works
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2, Early Modern English Drama (1590)
This documentary edition of Tamburlaine The Great, Part 2 is from The Folger’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama. The play was first performed in 1587 by the Admiral’s Men in London and this edition follows the one published
The Second Part of Tamburlaine Great, Renascence Editions (1950)
This 1950 Everyman’s Library edition of The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great was originally edited by Ernest Rhys. Stephanie Bear later prepared the edition for republication on the Renascence Editions website. This edition is fully downloadable and features modernized spelling. Return to Tamburlaine the Great, Part Two Return to Works
Tamburlaine the Great, Part One. Barton Collection (1605)
Here one may link to a digitized edition of Edward White’s 1605 publication of Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 written by Christopher Marlowe. This text has been generated through digital photos taken of the Boston Public Library’s copy from the Thomas
Edward the Second, Project Gutenberg (1598)
This transcribed Project Gutenberg edition of Edward II was first printed in London by Richard Bradocke in 1598. According to the ESTC, several copies remain in Britain and North America. Return to Edward II Return to Works
Massacre at Paris, Google Book (1885)
This edition of Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe was edited by A. H. Bullen. This is the second volume. The book is called The English Dramatists: Christopher Marlowe and contains The Jew of Malta, Edward the Second, The Massacre
Massacre at Paris, EMED (2017)
Here one may link to the digital anthology of Early Modern English Drama edited edition of the 1594 Massacre at Paris which includes the Death of the Duke of Guise written by Christopher Marlowe. This edition features original and modernized
Jew of Malta, Early Modern English Drama (1633)
The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta was published in 1633 in London by I.B. for Nicholas Vavasour. The play was first performed in 1589 by Lord Strange’s Men. Click on the image below to link to Early Modern
The Jew of Malta, Project Gutenberg (1850)
This edition of The Jew of Malta is a Project Gutenberg transcription of Alexander Dyce’s 1850 edition of the play. It was first released online on July 26, 2008 and updated on January 15, 2013. Click on the image to link
Massacre at Paris, Google Books (1735)
This is a facsimile edition of Christopher Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris, edited by Nathanael Lee in 1735, available through Google Books. This drama discusses Bartholomew’s Day and the 1592 massacre of France. Return to Massacre at Paris Return to Works
Massacre at Paris, Project Gutenberg (2008)
This edition of Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe was edited by David Widger. This transcription of Marlowe’s original play was published on August 26, 2008. Return to Massacre at Paris Return to Works
Massacre at Paris, EEBO-TCP (2003)
Here one may link to the EEBO-TCP’s transcribed edition of Massacre at Paris written by Christopher Marlowe. The text has been generated from the microfilm facsimile versions of the play available through the Early English Books Online database that was printed by Widow Orwin for
Edward the Second, Internet Archive (1887)
The 1887 edition was edited by Osbourne William Tancock. The physical edition can be found in the Canadian Libraries or the University of Toronto Robarts Library, but the online version was found on the Internet Archive. This edition includes an
Tamburlaine the Great, Part One. Early Modern English Drama (1590)
Here one may link to Early Modern English Drama’s (Folger Shakespeare Library) edited edition of the 1590 Tamburlaine the Great, 1 written by Christopher Marlowe. This edition features original and modernized spelling versions as downloadable PDFs or XML. This text, originally printed by Richard Jones, has
Edward the Second, Internet Archive (1622)
Here one may link to the Internet Archive edition of Edward the Second. This edition was released in 1622. The website contains pictures of the original copy that can be flipped through. Copies are located in the Boston Public Library, and
Mountford, William
Mountfort, William. The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Made Into a Farce, 1697. No. 157. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973. gutenberg.org.
Dido, Queen of Carthage. Title Page, LUNA (1594)
Here one may link to the 1594 title page of Dido, Queen of Carthage written by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe (LUNA 9488; STC 17441). This title page, printed by Widow Orwin for Thomas Woodcocke, also features the play’s dramatis personae, not entirely common
Brown, Meaghan, Michael Poston, and Elizabeth Williamson
Brown, Meaghan, Michael Poston, and Elizabeth Williamson, editors. Folger Shakespeare Library, A Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama, emed.folger.edu.
The tragical history of Doctor Faustus, Archive.org (1897)
This edition of The tragical history of Doctor Faustus is a facsimile of Israel Gollancz’s edition. It was published in 1897 by J.M. Dent. It attempts to blend the two versions of the quartos of 1604 and 1616. Return to Doctor Faustus
Dido, Queen of Carthage. EEBO-TCP (1594)
Here one may link to the EEBO-TCP’s transcribed edition of the 1594 edition of Dido, Queen of Carthage written by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. The text has been generated from the microfilm facsimile versions of the play available through the Early English Books
Edward the Second, British Library (1612)
The play was reprinted with only minor changes in 1612. In versions like this one imaged by the British Library, the title page was expanded to reflect the dramatic role, not only of Edward the second and proud Mortimer, but
The Tragicall History of D. Faustus, Luminarium (1604)
This is a modernized A text edition, transcribed by Risa Stephanie Bear in 2007. This edition is a representation of how the play was acted by the Earl of Nottingham’s servants. The original was printed by Valentine Simmes for Thomas Bushell in
The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus, Perseus Project (B Text) (1616)
This text is a facsimile of The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus and can be found on the Perseus Project website. This version is a B text. This version was created in 1616 and was edited by Hillary Binda. Return to Doctor
The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Project Gutenberg (A-text modified) (1697)
“Modified” by William Mountfort, this farcical edition of Doctor Faustus was published in 1697, and performed multiple times at the Queens Theater in Dorset Garden. The edition was later edited and republished in 1973 by the Augustan Reprint Society at
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Project Gutenberg (A-Text) (2009)
This version edited by Reverend Alexander Dyce and published on November 3, 2009. It is an example of the A text, and was produced by Gary Young and David Widger. Dyce was a Scottish dramatic editor and literary historian who
Digital Resources
Following are digital resources dedicated to the exploration of early modern literary studies, as well as tools one may use for digital text analysis, mapping, and more. This list is by no means complete. If you have a favorite online
Syllabi (F 2017, Sp 2018)
Download PDF versions of syllabi for the Learning Community, “A Rogue’s Progress: Mapping Kit Marlowe’s Social Networks,” taught at Stonehill College in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. Rogue’s Progress, Spring 2018 Rogue’s Progress, Fall 2017 NB. “Rogue” singular refers to
Bar Fight
The bar fight was really a bar fight. One theory that explains Christopher Marlowe’s death is the bar fight theory. This theory says that Marlowe was killed on May 30th 1593 at the age of 29. He had spent the
Faked
Marlovian Theory “Marlovians” are those who believe that Christopher Marlowe faked his own death. They argue that Marlowe needed a way to escape going to trial for being an atheist, or a double agent, or some other reason and therefore
Murder
Political Conspiracy Theories Some say Marlowe was killed because he refused to testify against Sir Walter Raleigh. Crown agents wanted to convict Raleigh for being an atheist. Ingram Frizer and Robert Poley may have been asked to persuade Marlowe to
Marlowe Was A Spy
One of the most popular theories surrounding Marlowe’s life is that he was employed as a spy under the supervision of Sir Francis Walsingham. Although Marlowe was employed by Sir Francis Walsingham in some way and had connections with many
Was Marlowe Truly Assassinated?
The night of Marlowe’s death Marlowe was accompanied by three men: Ingram Frizer, Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley. All men, including Marlowe himself, were working under a man by the name of Sir Francis Walsingham (Biography.com). Simple research states that
Were Marlowe and Shakespeare Really the Same Person?
One of the most common conspiracy theories surrounding Christopher Marlowe’s life is whether he and William Shakespeare were the same person. Many believe that Marlowe had faked his death and continued to write under the alias “William Shakespeare.” Some believe
Death Conspiracies
Conspiracy Theories about how Marlowe died Return to Conspiracy Theories Return Home
Anti-Conspiracy
Kit Marlowe: Disproving Conspiracy Theories Welcome to our Anti-Conspiracy Page! We have compiled primary sources and scholarly journals to counter common conspiracy theories around the life of Christopher Marlowe. We will demonstrate how Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare were two
Execution
Political Conspiracy Theories Some say Marlowe was killed because he refused to testify against Sir Walter Raleigh. Crown agents wanted to convict Raleigh for being an atheist. Ingram Frizer and Robert Poley may have been asked to persuade Marlowe to
Francis Meres. Palladis Tamia, or Wit’s Treasury (1598)
This selection from Palladis Tamia, or Wit’s Treasury, features Francis Meres’s catalog of England’s then-contemporary top poets and satirists including William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Watson, Thomas Nashe, and more. Students in the Fall 2017 section of “A Rogue’s Progress” worked from the
John Davies. Epigrammes and Elegies (c. 1599)
Here one will find all of John Davies’ epigrams prefacing the c. 1599 edition of Marlowe’s translation of Ovid’s Elegies. This Marlowe-adjacent text is interesting for many reasons, in part because it fell under the 1599 Bishop’s Ban. Students in the Fall
Harry Ransom Center
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, offers digital versions of early rare books under a Creative Commons license. Placeholder Click the image to visit the Harry Ransom Center and browse their collection! The Kit Marlowe Project
Digital Renaissance Editions
“Digital Renaissance Editions publishes electronic scholarly editions of early English drama and texts of related interest, from late medieval moralities and Tudor interludes, occasional entertainments and civic pageants, academic and closet drama, and the plays of the commercial London theaters, through
British Book Trade Index
The British Book Trade Index (BBTI),hosted by Oxford University provides information about early modern English stationers. Placeholder Click the image here to visit the British Book Trade Index homepage and start searching! The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under a
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference is an excellent resource for looking up classical and early modern figures. This source provides succinct definitions and comprehensive encyclopedia entries on a varieties of subjects including literature, linguistics, language reference, and even name studies. Placeholder Click the
Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary is a good reference for learning about all manners of classical terms and figures. Their dictionary covers a wide variety of ancient subjects including literature, law and philosophy. Placeholder Click the image to check out the
Fox, Robert
Fox, Robert. Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science. Routledge, 2000.
Voyant-tools
Voyant Tools offer a web-based platform that allow one to upload a Word doc or PDF and generate visualizations of text-based data, including single text and corpus analyses. The image here depicts a Voyant Tools generated visualization of term analytics of the
Thomas Pennant Barton Shakespeare Collection at the Boston Public Library
The Thomas Pennant Barton Shakespeare Collection at the Boston Public Library is an online treasure trove of early modern works published around Shakespeare’s time. Among many wonders, the collection contains Marlowe’s Tamburlaine. Click on the image of the title page shown here
TAPAS Project: Kit Marlowe
TAPAS is a free, online resource for publishing, archiving, and sharing Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) projects. The TAPAS Project: Kit Marlowe has pages for many of Marlowe’s works, click the portrait of Kit to explore the collection. The Kit Marlowe Project
Perseus Project
The Perseus Project site is our preferred resources for learning about classical sources and mythological history and figures. The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Pelagios’s Recogito
Pelagios’s Recogito is a web-based platform from which one may upload .txt files, tag placeNames, create maps, and more. Placeholder The Map of Persia shown here, similar to the image on the Recogito homepage, is from the British Library’s collection of
Purdue OWL
This site follows (or tries to follow!) the Modern Language Association’s ever changing citation conventions. Purdue Owl is a fantastic resource for writing of every kind. Scan or click on the QR Code here to visit Purdue OWL! The Kit
Luminarium
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature links to information and selected editions of Marlowe’s works available online. Luminarium is also an excellent resource for literary study beyond the English Renaissance; it anthologizes Medieval through Restoration literature. Placeholder Click the image to visit
ESTC: English Short Title Catalog
Published by the British Library, the ESTC is a valuable resource for discovering reliable bibliographic information for works printed before 1801. Placeholder Click the image to visit the English Short Title Catalogue! The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under a
Early Modern Print: Text Mining Early Printed English
Early Modern Print offers text analysis tools and computational approaches to exploring works printed before 1700 in the Early English Books Online database. Placeholder Click the image here to go to the Early Modern Print! The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under
Dido in the ESTC
The ESTC attributes Dido……………………
EEBO: Early English Books Online
Text Creation Partnership Keywords in Context The EEBO-TCP: Text Creation Partnership database offers rough transcriptions of selected texts from the EEBO database. This tool allows one to search the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database for key words using both
CQP Web “Simple Language Query Syntax”
This PDF is an excellent resource for learning about and experimenting with regular expression (aka “RegEx”) syntax queries. Click the image here, taken from the PDF, to open the document in a new tab, or click the link below to
Boston Public Library, Shakespeare Collection
The Digital Commonwealth hosts the The Boston Public Library’s Shakespeare Collection. There you’ll find digitized images from works in the Thomas Pennant Barton collection of works by and about William Shakespeare. The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under a Creative
AntConc
This downloadable app facilitates corpus and concordance analyses. Click the adorable logo here to go download AntConc! The Kit Marlowe Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Read EMED Ed. of Faustus
Write intro to this edition here.
Lindsey, Robert
Romany, Frank and Robert Lindsey, editors. Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays. Penguin, 2003.
Orgel, Stephen
Orgel, Stephen. Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations. Penguin, 1979.
Dido, Queen of Carthage. Early Modern English Drama (1594)
Here one may link to Early Modern English Drama’s (Folger Shakespeare Library) edited edition of the 1594 Dido, Queen of Carthage written by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe. This edition features original and modernized spelling reading versions, plus downloadable PDFs or XML files.
“Hero and Leander,” Perseus Project
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“Hero and Leander”, Renascence Editions (1595)
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Tamburlaine the Great, 2
http://emed.folger.edu/2tam