Robert Apsley (1594), sig. A4r. Tamburlaine is in effect the hero of Le Roy’s book: see fols. 107v – 109v and 119v –120r.

9. ‘To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr William Shakespeare: And What He Hath Left Us’ (30), The Complete Poems, ed. George Parfitt (Harmondsworth, 1975), p. 263.

10. Discoveries 963–4, in Complete Poems, ed. Parfitt, p. 398.

11. Emrys Jones, ‘Into the Open’, Essays in Criticism 33 (1983), p. 344.

12. Ethel Seaton, ‘Marlowe’s Map’, Essays and Studies 10 (1924), pp. 13–35.

13. Jack Rummel, Robert Oppenheimer, Dark Prince (Oxford, 1992), p. 11. Oppenheimer was recalling the words of Siva to Arjuna, Baghavad-Gita 10.

14. Philip Henderson, ‘Marlowe as a Messenger’, Times Literary Supplement, 12 June 1953, p. 381.

15. Julia Briggs, ‘Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris: A Reconsideration’, Review of English Studies n.s. 34 (1983), p. 259.

16. Felix E. Schelling, English Drama (London, 1914), p. 68.

17. Harry Levin, Christopher Marlowe: The Overreacher (London, 1954), p.131.

18. Reported by Roma Gill, ‘“Such Conceits as Clownage Keeps in Pay”: Comedy in Dr Faustus’, in The Fool and the Trickster: Studies in Honour of Enid Welsford, ed. Paul V. A. Williams (Cambridge, 1979), p.56.

19. Lectures on the Age of Elizabeth (1820), repr. in Marlowe, ‘Dr Faustus’: A Casebook, ed. John Jump (London, 1969), p. 27.

20. W. W. Greg, ‘The Damnation of Faustus’, Modern Language Review 61 (1946), repr. in Jump, Casebook, pp. 71–88.

21. T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays (London, 1951), p. 105.

22. Cf.