DOUGLAS COLE is Professor of English at Northwestern University. He is author of Suffering and Evil in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe and editor of two volumes—Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Romeo and Juliet and Renaissance Drama XI: Tragedy.

• Series Foreword by Josh Beer, Christopher Innes, and Simon Williams Prologue Chronology Matters of Life and Death The World of the Theatre in the Reign of Elizabeth Dido, Queen of Carthage: Tragedy in the Classical Tradition Tamburlaine the Great: Tragical Discourse and Spectacle Machiavellian Tragedy: The Massacre at Paris and The Jew of Malta Edward II: Tragedy in the De Casibus Tradition Doctor Faustus: Tragedy in the Allegorical Tradition Marlowe's Legacy to Tragedy Appendix A: Thomas Kyd's Accusations of Marlowe Appendix B: Richard Baines' Note Works Cited Index