1885–9. H. Breymann and A. Wagner, C. M. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. 3 parts. [Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, Jew of Malta only issued.]
1887. H. Ellis, The Best Plays of C. M. (Mermaid Series). [Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, Jew of Malta, Edward II.]
1910. C. F. Tucker Brooke, The Works of C. M. [Larger edition in progress.]
1912. W. L. Phelps. Marlowe [M. E. D.]. [Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, Jew of Malta, Edward II.]
Dissertations: H. Ulrici, C. M. und Shakespeare’s Verhältniss zu ihm (1865, Jahrbuch, i. 57); J. Schipper, De versu Marlowii (1867); T. Mommsen, M. und Shakespeare (1886); A. W. Verity, M.’s Influence on Shakespeare (1886); E. Faligan, De Marlovianis Fabulis (1887); O. Fischer, Zur Charakteristik der Dramen M.’s (1889); J. G. Lewis, C. M.: Outlines of his Life and Works (1891); F. S. Boas, New Light on M. (1899, Fortnightly Review, lxxi, 212); J. H. Ingram, C. M. and his Associates (1904); H. Jung, Das Verhältniss M.’s zu Shakespeare (1904); W. L. Courtney, C. M. (Fortnightly Review, 1905, ii. 467, 678); A. Marquardsen, C. M.’s Kosmologie (1905, Jahrbuch, xli. 54); J. Le G. Brereton, The Case of Francis Ingram (Sydney Univ. Publ. v); G. C. Moore Smith, Marlowe at Cambridge (1909, M. L. R. iv. 167); F. C. Danchin, Études critiques sur C. M. (1912–13, Revue Germanique, viii. 23; ix. 566); C. Crawford, The Marlowe Concordance (1911, Materialien, xxxiv, pt. i only); F. K. Brown, M. and Kyd (T. L. S., 2 June, 1921).
Tamburlaine. c. 1587
S. R. 1590, Aug. 14 (Hartwell). ‘The twooe commicall discourses of Tomberlein the Cithian shepparde.’ Richard Jones (Arber, ii. 558).
1590. Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from a Scythian Shephearde by his rare and wonderfull Conquests became a most puissant and mightye Monarque. And (for his tyranny, and terrour in Warre) was tearmed, The Scourge of God. Deuided into two Tragicall Discourses, as they were sundrie times shewed vpon Stages in the Citie of London, By the right honorable the Lord Admyrall, his seruantes. Now first, and newlie published. Richard Jones [8vo]. [Epistle to the Readers, signed ‘R. I. Printer’; Prologues to both Parts. See Greg, Plays, 66; Masques, cxxv. Ingram, 281, speaks of two 4tos and one 8vo of 1590, probably through some confusion.]
1592. R. Jones. [Greg, Masques, cxxv, thinks that the date may have been altered in the B.M. copy from 1593. Langbaine mentions an edition of 1593.]
1597. [An edition apparently known to Collier; cf. Greg, Masques, cxxv.]