Lust’s Dominion by Christopher Marlowe - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Christopher Marlowe

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788774703

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was a 16th century playwright, poet, and translator. Considered to be the most famous playwright in the Elizabethan era, Marlowe is believed to have inspired major artists such as Shakespeare. Marlowe was known for his dramatic works that often depicted extreme displays of violence, catering to his audience’s desires. Surrounded by mystery and speculation, Marlowe’s own life was as dramatic and exciting as his plays. Historians are still puzzled by the man, conflicted by rumors that he was a spy, questions about his sexuality, and suspicions regarding his death.

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The Complete Works of

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

VOLUME 7 OF 21

Lust’s Dominion

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2015

Version 5

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‘Lust’s Dominion’

Christopher Marlowe: Parts Edition (in 21 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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Christopher Marlowe: Parts Edition

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CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

IN 21 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Plays

1, Dido, Queen of Carthage

2, Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2

3, The Jew of Malta

4, Doctor Faustus - a Text and B Text

5, Edward II

6, The Massacre at Paris

The Apocryphal Play

7, Lust’s Dominion

The Poetry

8, Translation of Book One of Lucan’s the Pharsalia

9, Translation of Ovid’s Elegies

10, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

11, The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh

12, Hero and Leander

13, Fragment

14, In Obitum Honoratissimi Viri, Rogeri Manwood, Militis, Quæstorii Regi- Nalis Capitalis Baronis

15, Dialogue in Verse

16, Epigrams by J.D.

The Criticism

17, The Criticism

The Biographies

18, Marlowe and His Associates by John H. Ingram

19, The Muses’ Darling by Charles Norman

20, Christopher Marlowe - Outlines of His Life and Works by J. G. Lewis

21, The Death of Christopher Marlowe by J. Leslie Hotson

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Lust’s Dominion

OR, THE LASCIVIOUS QUEEN

This tragedy was written around 1600 and first published in 1657.  The first edition attributed its authorship to Marlowe, though this attribution has been classed as spurious by many critics and scholars.  The play borrows from a pamphlet, published in 1599, about the 1598 death of King Philip II of Spain, and since Marlowe died in 1593, the play was most likely written by another playwright called Thomas Dekker in collaboration with others.  The play has been categorized as a tragedy of blood, comparable to Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.

CONTENTS

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Act I

Scene I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Act II

Scene I.

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Scene VI

Act. III

Scene I

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Scene VI.

Act. IV.

Scene I.

Scene II.

Scene III.

Scene IV.

Scene V.

Act. V.

Scene I.

Scene II

Scene III

Scene IV

Scene V

Scene VI

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Eleazar, the Moor, Prince of Fess and Barbary

Philip, King of Spain, father to Fernando, Philip and Isabella

Fernando King of Spain, son to Philip

Philip Prince of Spain, son to Philip

Alvero, a Nobleman, Father in Law to Eleazar, and Father to Hortenzo and Maria

Mendoza, the Cardinal

Christofero, nobleman of Spain

Roderigo, nobleman of Spain

Hortenzo, lover to Isabella and son to Alvero

Zarack, Moor attending Eleazar

Baltazar, Moor attending Eleazar

Friar Cole

Friar Crab

Emmanuel King of Portugal

Captain, soldiers, cum aliis

Two pages attending the Queen

The Queen Mother of Spain, wife of King Philip

Isabella the Infantaii of Spain

Maria, wife to Eleazar and daughter of Alvero

Act I

Scene I

Enter Zarack, Baltazar, two Moors taking tobacco, music sounding within. Enter Queen Mother of Spain with two Pages, Eleazar sitting on a chair suddenly draws the curtain.

Eleazar On me? Does music spend this sound on me

That hate all unity! Hah Zarack, Baltazar?

Queen Mother   My gracious Lord.

Eleazar Are you there with your beagles? Hark you slaves:

Did not I bind you on your lives to watch that none disturbed us?

Queen Mother  Gentle Eleazar…

Eleazar There, off! Is it you that deafen me with this noise?

Exit two Moors.

Queen Mother Why is my love’s aspect so grim and horrid?

Look smoothly on me,

Chime out your softest strains of harmony,

And on delicious music’s silken wings

Send ravishing delight to my love’s ears,

That he may be enamoured of your tunes.

Come, let’s kiss.

Eleazar Away, away!

Queen Mother No, no, says I; and twice away says stay:

Come, come, I’ll have a kiss, but if you strive

For one denial you shall forfeit five.

Eleazar Nay prithee good Queen leave me;

I am now sick, heavy, and dull as lead.

Queen Mother I’ll make thee lighter by taking something from thee.

Eleazar Do, take from me this ague and these fits, that hanging on me

Shake me in pieces, and set all my blood

A boiling with the fire of rage: away, away!

Thou believ’st   I jest and laugh’st, to see my wrath wear antic shapes.

Begone, begone.

Queen Mother What means my love? Burst all those wires! Burn all those instruments!

For they displease my Moor. Art thou now pleased,

Or wert thou now disturbed? I’ll wage all Spain

To one sweet kiss; this is some new device

To make me fond and long. Oh! You men

Have tricks to make poor women die for you.

Eleazar What? Die for me? Away!

Queen Mother Away? What way? I prithee speak more kindly.

Why dost thou frown? At whom?

Eleazar At thee!

Queen Mother At me? Oh why at me? For each contracted frown

A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow.

Spend but one hour in frowns and I shall look

Like to a beldam   of one hundred years.

I prithee speak to me and chide me not,

I prithee chide if I have done amiss,

Kiss

But let my punishment be this,