TY - JOUR
AU - Peschmann, Hermann
AB - ENGLISH VOLUME XV AlltUTnn I964 NUMBER 87 'Infinite riches in a little room' By HERMANN PESCHMANN VERSHADOWED by that of his great his 'mighty line': his fashioning of that superb contemporary, the quatercentenary of instrument for the drama of the next fifty years, Christopher Marlowe is passing with re- the supple, five-foot, unrhymed iambic line grettably little notice. Yet before he was with which Shakespeare was to achieve such thirty this man had transformed English miraculous depth and compression in plays blank verse from the 'end-stop' turgidity of like King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra. Gorboduc, through the mellifluously lyrical vein What Marlowe did with that verse may be of Tamburlaine, to the sustained magnificence seen from an aptly timed volume: a critical and tragic intensity of Faustus's death and the study, preceded by a short Life, of each of the rich gloom and horror of Edward II 's which, plays, of the translations from Lucan and Ovid, Charles Lamb maintained, 'moves pity and and of Hero andLeander. I wish I could welcome terror beyond any scene ancient or modern'. it unreservedly. But it has too much the air of If we look at what Shakespeare had achieved a 
TI - Christopher Marlowe, 1564–1593
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/15.87.85
DA - 1964-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/christopher-marlowe-1564-1593-3BzQ0jan9M
SP - 85
EP - 89
VL - 15
IS - 87
DP - DeepDyve
ER -