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1Jew of Malta

By Christopher Marlowe

Christopher &#8220;Kit&#8221; Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 &#8211; 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian before William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own untimely death.<br /><br /> <i>The Jew of Malta</i> (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean. <i>The Jew of Malta</i> is considered to have been a major influence on William Shakespeare&#8217;s <i>The Merchant of Venice</i>.<br /><br /> The play contains a prologue in which the character Machiavel, a Senecan ghost based on Niccolò Machiavelli, introduces &#8220;the tragedy of a Jew.&#8221; (summary by Wikipedia)<br /><br /> Thomas Heywood: The well-known dramatist of the time has included Prologues and Epilogues both for the court and the Cock-Pit theatre &#8220;&#8230;making choice of you unto whom to devote it;&#8221; . (summary by David Lawrence)<br /><br /> <strong>Cast:</strong><br />Ferneze, as Governor of Malta and - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2234"> Lars Rolander</a><br /> Lodowick, his son - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1702">Jay Saunders</a><br /> Selim Calymath, son to the Grand Seignior - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3965">Damien Tavis Toman</a><br /> Martin del Bosco, vice-admiral of Spain - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/263"> Michael Sirois</a><br /> Mathias, a gentleman - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3916"> Daniel Hutton</a><br /> Jacomo, a friar - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3940"> Kevin Vinck</a><br /> Barnardine, a friar - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2110"> Aaron Elliott</a><br /> Barabas, a wealthy Jew - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3952"> EHehl</a><br /> Ithamore, a slave - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/26"> Denny Sayers</a><br /> Katharine, mother to Mathias - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/20"> Gesine</a><br /> Abigail, daughter to Barabas - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1700"> Andrea Lee</a><br /> Bellamira, a courtezan - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3943"> Silence</a><br /> Pilia-Borza, a bully, attendant to Bellamira - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3969"> CM Slosson</a><br /> First Jew and First Knight - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3994">Miriam Esther Goldman</a><br /> Second Jew, Second Officer, Second Knight<br /> and Second Merchant - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4042"> Ryan DeRamos</a><br /> Third Jew, Slave and Carpenter - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1066"> Laurie Anne Walden</a><br /> Officer/First Officer - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4283"> Eric J. Katowitz</a><br /> Merchant/First Merchant - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1724"> Anna Simon</a><br /> Messenger - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3615"> Lucy Perry</a><br /> Machiavel, as Prologue Speaker - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/949"> ontheroad</a><br /> Announcer - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/243"> Jennifer Stearns</a><br /><br /> <strong>Audio edited by</strong> - <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2911">David Lawrence</a>

2Hero and Leander

By George Chapman and Christopher Marlowe

“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”<br/><br/> The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague broke out in London, forcing the closure of the theatres. Leading playwrights took to penning languorously erotic poetry to make ends meet: so we have Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece - and Marlowe’s blazing masterpiece, Hero and Leander.<br/><br/> Marlowe’s poem became more notorious than either of Shakespeare’s, due not only to its homophile provocations but also to the scandal attaching to every aspect of Marlowe’s brief life, violently ended in a mysterious brawl, leaving the poem in an unfinished state.<br/><br/> The edition read here includes the wonderful continuation by George Chapman, a versatile playwright: tragedian as well as author of Jonsonian metropolitan comedies: in short, an all-round literary craftsman, whose Homer translation was famously admired by Keats. Chapman excels in extended allegory, but also in pithiest epigram –<br/><br/> “Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,<br/> That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes.” <br/><br/> All these playwrights come from the generation of grammar-school alumni raised on the secular curriculum of Latin poetry: above all, Ovid – the source of the story of Hero and Leander, and their “love-death” in the Hellespont.<br/> (Summary by Martin Geeson)

3Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

By Christopher Marlowe

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, normally known simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. (Summary by Wikipedia)<br /><br /> <strong>Cast:</strong><br>Chorus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3595">Martin Geeson</a><br>Good Angel: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4174">Availle</a><br>Evil Angel/Cardinal/Third Scholar: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/26">Denny Sayers</a><br>Doctor Faustus/Vintner/First Friar/Covetousness/Gluttony: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a><br>Mephistophilis/Knight/First Scholar/Envy/Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>Lucifer: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2733">CalmDragon</a><br>Wagner: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3536">Arielle Lipshaw</a><br>Valdes/Clown/Third Friar: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3698">Nadine Eckert-Boulet</a><br>Cornelius: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/252">Rainer</a><br>The Pope: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4547">John Steigerwald</a><br>Emperor: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5485">Sean Randall</a><br>Horse-courser: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5506">Frank Booker</a><br>Robin: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3470">Jason Mills</a><br>Ralph/Second Scholar/Wrath: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5077">Sandra G</a><br>Second Friar/Old Man: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2911">David Lawrence</a><br>Fourth Friar/Duke of Vanholt: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2234">Lars Rolander</a><br>Duchess of Vanholt: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5269">Musicalheart1</a><br>Pride: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5340">Mary-Beth Blackburn</a><br>Sloth: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4009">Diana Majlinger</a><br>Lechery: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3615">Lucy Perry</a><br><br><strong>Audio edited by:</strong> Elizabeth Klett

4Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1

By Christopher Marlowe

<i>Tamburlaine the Great</i> is the name of a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur 'the lame'. Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama; it marks a turning away from the clumsy language and loose plotting of the earlier Tudor dramatists, and a new interest in fresh and vivid language, memorable action, and intellectual complexity. Along with Thomas Kyd's <i>The Spanish Tragedy</i>, it may be considered the first popular success of London's public stage.<br><br>Marlowe, generally considered the greatest of the University Wits, influenced playwrights well into the Jacobean period, and echoes of <i>Tamburlaine's</i> bombast and ambition can be found in English plays all the way to the Puritan closing of the theaters in 1642. While <i>Tamburlaine</i> is considered inferior to the great tragedies of the late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean period, its significance in creating a stock of themes and, especially, in demonstrating the potential of blank verse in drama, are still acknowledged. (Summary by Wikipedia)<br/><br/><b>CAST</b><br/><br/>Prologue, Dramatis Personae, GOVERNOR OF DAMASCUS: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3595">Martin Geeson</a><br>MYCETES, king of Persia; MAGNETES, Median lord; CAPOLIN, an Egyptian; A BASSO; ATTENDANT: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a><br>COSROE, his brother: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3699">Bruce Pirie</a><br>MEANDER, Persian lord: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6246">David Richardson</a><br>THERIDAMAS, Persian lord: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3618">Timothy Ferguson</a><br>ORTYGIUS, Persian lord: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6003">sparks0314</a><br>CENEUS, Persian lord: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6019">DerekP</a><br>MENAPHON, Persian lord: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6005">Alan</a><br>TAMBURLAINE, a Scythian shepherd: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5141">David Goldfarb</a><br>TECHELLES, follower of Tamburlaine: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5625">Readalot</a><br>USUMCASANE, follower of Tamburlaine: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6459">Nigel Boydell</a><br>BAJAZETH, emperor of the Turks: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6037">bish</a><br>KING OF FEZ; KING OF MOROCCO; SOLDAN OF EGYPT; AGYDAS, Median lord: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6035">Marty Kris</a><br>KING OF ARGIER: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6214">Jafbado</a><br>KING OF ARABIA: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6264">Robert Scheid</a><br>PHILEMUS, a spy: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6300">Sarah Crampton</a><br>ZENOCRATE, daughter to the Soldan of Egypt: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5077">Sandra G</a><br>ANIPPE, her maid: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4174">Availle</a><br>ZABINA, wife to BAJAZETH: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4744">Amy Gramour</a><br>EBEA, her maid: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6130">ChyAnne Donnell</a><br>FIRST VIRGIN, VIRGINS: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>SECOND VIRGIN, VIRGINS: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3536">Arielle Lipshaw</a><br>Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6014">Tina Nuzzi</a>

5Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2

By Christopher Marlowe

<i>Tamburlaine the Great</i> is the name of a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur 'the lame'. Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama; it marks a turning away from the clumsy language and loose plotting of the earlier Tudor dramatists, and a new interest in fresh and vivid language, memorable action, and intellectual complexity. Along with Thomas Kyd's <i>The Spanish Tragedy</i>, it may be considered the first popular success of London's public stage.<br/><br/> In Part 2, Tamburlaine grooms his sons to be conquerors in his wake as he continues to conquer his neighbouring kingdoms. One of his sons, Calyphas, preferring to stay by his mother's side and not risk death, incurs Tamburlaine's wrath. Seeing this son as a coward, Tamburlaine kills him in anger after a battle in which he refuses to fight. During this time, Bajazeth's son, Callapine, plans to avenge his father's death. Finally, while attacking an Islamic nation, he scornfully burns a copy of the Qur'an and claims to be greater than God. Suddenly, Tamburlaine is struck ill and dies, giving his power to his remaining sons, but still aspiring to greatness as he departs life. (Summary by Wikipedia)<br/><br/>Click here for <a href="http://librivox.org/tamburlaine-the-great-part-1-by-christopher-marlowe/">Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1</a><br><br><strong>Cast</strong><br> <br />Narrator; Concubine 3: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6014">Tina Nuzzi</a><br>Prologue; DP; GOVERNOR OF DAMASCUS; GOVERNOR OF BABYLON: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3595">Martin Geeson</a><br>TAMBURLAINE, king of Persia: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5141">David Goldfarb</a><br>CALYPHAS, son of Tamburlaine: <a href="http://www.sarahsvoice.net/">Sarah Crampton</a><br>AMYRAS, son of Tamburlaine: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6147">Liberty Stump</a><br>CELEBINUS, son of Tamburlaine: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6014">Tina Nuzzi</a><br>THERIDAMAS, king of Argier: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3618">Timothy Ferguson</a><br>TECHELLES, king of Fez: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5625">Readalot</a><br>USUMCASANE, king of Morocco: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5874">Paul Andrews</a><br>ORCANES, king of Natolia: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5506">Frank Booker</a><br>KING OF TREBIZON; URIBASSA: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6264">Robert Scheid</a><br>KING OF SORIA; KING OF AMASIA; GAZELLUS, viceroy of Byron; MAXIMUS; PIONERS; PERDICAS; First Physician; Soldiers: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a><br>KING OF JERUSALEM; SIGISMUND, King of Hungary: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5659">Dale Burgess</a><br>FREDERICK, Lord of Buda and Bohemia; CAPTAIN: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6035">Marty Kris</a><br>BALDWIN, Lord of Buda and Bohemia; ALMEDA, his keeper: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6037">bish</a><br>CALLAPINE, son to BAJAZETH, and prisoner to TAMBURLAINE: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4744">Amy Gramour</a><br>CAPTAIN’S SON; Concubine 2: <a href="http://wildemoose.wordpress.com/">Arielle Lipshaw</a><br>Messenger; Citizen: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6287">Ailina</a><br>Second Citizen: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6281">Beth Thomas</a><br>ZENOCRATE, wife to TAMBURLAINE: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5077">Sandra G</a><br>OLYMPIA, wife to the CAPTAIN: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5949">debolee</a><br>Concubine 1: <a href="http://amingledyarn.wordpress.com/">Elizabeth Klett</a><br /><br /><strong>Audio edited by:</strong> Algy Pug

6Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1616 version)

By Christopher Marlowe

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after the first performance of the play. "No Elizabethan play outside the Shakespeare canon has raised more controversy than Doctor Faustus. There is no agreement concerning the nature of the text and the date of composition... and the centrality of the Faust legend in the history of the Western world precludes any definitive agreement on the interpretation of the play. This recording uses the 1616 quarto, published by John Wright, which contains significant alterations from and additions to the quarto of 1604. The text of the first quarto was used for a <a href="http://librivox.org/the-tragical-history-of-doctor-faustus-by-christopher-marlowe/">previous Librivox recording</a>. (Summary by Wikipedia and Algy Pug)<br/><br/> <strong>Cast</strong><br>Chorus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6965">Noel Badrian</a><br>Faustus: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5141">David Goldfarb</a><br>Mephistophilis: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5321">Adam Whybray</a><br>Wagner/Lucifer: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7079">Chuck Williamson</a><br>Valdes: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7448">Kevin Johnson</a><br>Cornelius/Bruno/Vintner/Martino: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7603">Wupperhippo</a><br>Good Angel: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7171">April Gonzales</a><br>Evil Angel/Sloth: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7138">Caprisha Page</a><br>Clown/Covetousness/Robin/Emperor Charles V: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7170">Alan Mapstone</a><br>First Scholar/Lechery/Hostess: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7410">Lauren Burwell</a><br>Second Scholar/First Soldier: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6689">Tiffany Halla Colonna</a><br>Third Scholar/Dick: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>Beelzebub: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5017">Miss Avarice</a><br>Pride/Archbishop of Rheims/Second Soldier/Servant/Old Man/Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a><br>Envy: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6548">Kristingj</a><br>Wrath: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/2269">Rhonda Federman</a><br>Gluttony/Raymond/Duke of Saxony: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7315">Charlotte Duckett</a><br>Pope: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3595">Martin Geeson</a><br>Cardinal of France: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/5625">Readalot</a><br>Friar: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6147">Liberty Stump</a><br>Frederick: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1724">Anna Simon</a><br>Benvolio: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7500">Cliff Thompson</a><br>Horse courser/Carter: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6097">Phil Benson</a><br>Duke of Vanholt/Cardinal of Padua: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7008">John Trevithick</a><br>Duchess of Vanholt: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1328">Duan</a><br><br><strong>Audio edited by Algy Pug</strong>

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 30, 2012.<br><br>Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. (Summary by Wikipedia )

8Edward II

By Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy focuses on the downfall of King Edward II, whose love for his favorite courtier, Piers Gaveston, leads to rebellion. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)<br/><br/><strong>Cast</strong><br>Gaveston: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7079">Chuck Williamson</a><br>King Edward II: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3595">Martin Geeson</a><br>Lancaster/Berkeley: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6754">Todd</a><br>Mortimer Senior/Monks/Matrevis: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4267">Ric F</a><br>Mortimer Junior: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1492">mb</a><br>Earl of Kent: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3536">Arielle Lipshaw</a><br>Earl of Warwick/Sir John of Hainault/Lightborn: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7170">Alan Mapstone</a><br>Bishops of Coventry, Winchester, and Canterbury/Spencer Senior: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4705">Algy Pug</a><br>Queen Isabella/Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>Pembroke/Mower/Gurney: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7999">Thomas Cardwell</a><br>Prince Edward: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7315">Charlotte Duckett</a><br>Spencer Junior: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7791">Robin King</a><br>Baldock: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4572">om123</a><br>Leicester: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/8067">Joseph Abell</a><br>First Poor Man/Earl of Arundel/First Lord: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7848">bala</a><br>Third Poor Man/Rice Ap Howell/Trussel/Second Lord: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6544">Amanda Friday</a><br>King's Niece: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7679">Libby Gohn</a><br>Messenger/Herald: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7138">Caprisha Page</a><br><br><strong>Audio edited by Elizabeth Klett</strong>

9Hero and Leander (version 2)

By Christopher Marlowe

Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyranny of their guardians and of geography itself, for they live on opposite sides of the Hellespont. To enjoy one night of love, Leander dares to swim this formidable strait, unluckily meeting the god Neptune along the way. Unaware of the resentment he has aroused by rejecting the advances of this old queen of the sea, the lad gains the shore and, once past the shock of appearing naked on his lover's doorstep, finds his way into her bed. There the young couple, although ignorant of the facts of life (Hero is a "nun" in the temple of Venus!), discover "all that elder lovers know" by (awkward) trial and (hilarious) error. The unfinished poem ends with one lover having fallen out of bed, the long return journey across the Hellespont still to come and an angry Neptune lying in wait. Although George Chapman continued the poem after Marlowe's death, this reading is of Marlowe's original only. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)

10Quest of the Golden Ape

By Paul W. Fairman and Stephen Marlowe

How could this man awaken with no past—no childhood—no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy? - Summary by Gutenberg text <br><br> Note: The files list Randall Garrett as author. More recent research has shown this to have been written by Paul W. Fairman and Stephen Marlowe. The audio files have not been changed to reflect the change in author attribution.

11Recruit for Andromeda

By Stephen Marlowe

No one comes back from the Nowhere Journey, whatever they say about some “rotation.” When Kit Temple's drafted, he figures he's leaving his girl, his life, behind forever. But his fellow-draftee, the enigmatic Arkalion, seems to know a lot more than what he's letting on. When Kit follows Arkalion to the end of space and time, he finds out what's really going on in this “Nowhere” and takes on a trial that will decide the fate of Earth itself! (Summary by Andrew Huguelet)

12Slaves to the Metal Horde

By Stephen Marlowe

Johnny Hope knew the robot armies had been created to serve Man. But war and a plague had destroyed civilization, leaving humans as - slaves to the metal horde! - Summary by Original Gutenberg text

Private Eye Chester Drum is thrust into a dark web of intrigue when he witnesses fellow detective Gil Sprayregan run down by a speeding car. Sprayregan had given Drum his first big break in the P. I. game, and Drum can't help but take it personally. As Drum digs into the case, he discovers a spicy Washington sex scandal with ties leading up to someone important at the Indian Embassy. Will Drum's search for Sprayregan's killer find him looking down the wrong end of a gun with someone else's itchy finger on the trigger? - Summary by Ben Tucker

14Newshound

By Stephen Marlowe

The Fourth Estate was highly specialized in the 22nd Century; for example, a good newsman predicted coming events—and made them happen.... - Summary by Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy July 1955

tba - Summary by Alan Mapstone