[139.] See Schelling, I, 211.
[140.] See p. 114.
[141.] In 1587 the first history of Johann Faust, a half-legendary German necromancer, appeared in Frankfort. Where Marlowe found the story is unknown; but he used it, as Goethe did two centuries later, for the basis of his great tragedy.
[142.] We must remember, however, that our present version of Faustus is very much mutilated, and does not preserve the play as Marlowe wrote it.
[143.] The two dramatists may have worked together in such doubtful plays as Richard III, the hero of which is like Timur in an English dress, and Titus Andronicus, with its violence and horror. In many strong scenes in Shakespeare's works Marlowe's influence is manifest.
[144.] Gammer Gurton's Needle appeared c. 1562; Love's Labour's Lost, c. 1591.
[145.] King John, IV, 2.
[146.] Queen Mab, in Romeo and Juliet.
[147.] By Archdeacon Davies, in the seventeenth century.
[148.] In 1709, nearly a century after the poet's death.