We've selected a range of books relating to Christopher Marlowe and Dr Faustus to take your interest further.

Reading

Christopher Marlowe
Roger Sales
(1991) New York, St. Martin’s Press

Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life
Lisa Hopkins
(2000) Published by Basingstoke, Palgrave

Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life Constance Brown Kuriyama
(2002) Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press

Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy
Park Honan
(2005) Oxford University Press

‘Doctor Faustus’
Thomas Healy
(2004) in P. Cheney (ed) The Cambridge Companion to
Christopher Marlowe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

Doctor Faustus: A-text (1604)
Christopher Marlowe
(2003) ed. John O’Connor, Harlow, Pearson Longman

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe
Patrick Cheney
(ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

The Overreacher: A Study of Christopher Marlowe
Harry Levin
(1954) London, Faber and Faber

The Persecutory Imagination: English Puritanism and the Literature of Religious Despair
John Stachniewski
(1991) Oxford, Clarendon Press

We also have some web resource links relating to the theatre and Christopher Marlow for you to explore

Web Resources

Openlearn - Dr Faustus
This site offers an extract from an Open University course about Christopher Marlowe's famous play in relation to Marlowe's reputation.

Marlowe's complete works
This website offers an electronic version of all of Christopher Marlowe's works.

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
The official website for the reconstructed Globe Theatre with subjects relating to historical drama and theatre.

Luminarium
This website provides information on the life and works of Christopher Marlowe.

The National Theatre
The official National Theatre website offering educational information and related subjects to theatre and drama.