Time for a game!

[lareinenoire]

How many copies of Christopher Marlowe can one girl possibly own?

Let's see.

1. Falling-apart paperback edition featuring the four major plays.

2. Bizarre hardcover edition from 1929, language supposedly not modernised.

3. Doctor Faustus paperback edition with nice appendices.

4. Edward the Second paperback edition, also with nice appendices.

Grace à the lovely rosamund, there will soon be an 1896 Complete Works added to this list. And I am very seriously eyeing a copy of the edition I looked at today in Rare Books, from 1887, with a fascinating essay by Havelock Ellis. Only reason I chose the 1896 over it as a birthday present was because it only has the four major plays and none of the poetry.

So this puts me at six. Not including criticism/fiction/biography/etc.

However, this is *nothing* compared to my Shakespeare collection. I have no idea how many different copies of different plays I own; I lost count years ago. Also...let's see...at least four copies of Pride and Prejudice, three of Jane Eyre, at least five instances of Oscar Wilde floating around somewhere...so I suppose the final verdict is that I randomly collect multiple copies of books. Just because.

And you needn't say it. I'm weird. ;)

ETA (3:30 AM): If we want to count nonfiction/criticism/etc, here's the extended list. Plus, I just put in an order for the 1887 Symonds/Havelock book. So...

7. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe

8. Anthony Burgess - A Dead Man in Deptford

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Ooh, I'll play!

[cheshyre]

Off the top of my head, posting from work:

Works:

• Paperback copy of the Complete Plays bought used, which has lost its front cover
  
• Dover Press cheapie Complete Poems
  
• Shakespeare's Edward III, bought on remainder because I know the authorship is disputed.
[Of course, now ask me which of these I've actually read, and it's much more embarrassing...]
• I have the CD When Love Speaks with Annie Lennox's rendition of "Live with me and be my love"
• I also ripped an audio track from McKellan's Richard III for the Big Band cover of the poem

Nonfiction:

• Charles Nicholl, The Reckoning (1st ed; I understand he's changed his conclusions in the 2nd ed)
• David Riggs' World of Christopher Marlowe
All the other bios I've read have been borrowed from libraries.

Modern fiction with Marlowe as a character:

• "Winter's Tale" by Connie Willis
  
• The Armor of light by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett (2 copies)
  
• The Scholars of night by John M. Ford
  
• Sandman The Doll's house by Neil Gaiman

And off the top of my head, that's it. I guess I really do most of my reading from borrowed books (libraries generally)

I also have an unpublished manuscript in electronic form that I'm trying to figure out how to read. I don't have an e-book reader and don't want to bankrupt myself with printing costs, so the file has just been sitting on my computer for a little while.

Re: Ooh, I'll play!

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I'd forgotten the McKellen Richard III. I managed to snag a copy of the soundtrack on E-Bay. Lovely soundtrack, especially "Come Live With Me." In fact, watching the film was my first exposure to that poem.

As far as criticism, et al, goes, I believe there are a few books headed my way as birthday presents. ::grins with appropriate nerditude::

Re: Ooh, I'll play!

[cheshyre]

Covet.

I'll trade you an MP3 of Annie Lennox's version for an MP3 of that track...

Re: Ooh, I'll play!

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Count me in! I'm all for sharing the wonderfulness of the Richard III soundtrack. Trevor Jones = genius.

Wanna trade?

[cheshyre]

http://www.osmond-riba.org/lis/media/WhenLoveSpeaks/Lennox-LiveWithMe.mp3 (2.12 MB)

If you want, I also ripped Alan Rickman reading Sonnet 130 (1.32 MB) Yummy voice...

Please download them rather than playing directly from the server.

BTW, Feb 6 is Marlowe's bday observed... Not as big a deal as Shakespeare's birthday, but I like to spread the word so people who care remember to notice it.

Re: Wanna trade?

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

::grin:: I would love to, but for some reason the website isn't letting me download. If you'd like to e-mail it to me, however, that would be fantastic. I'll get your address off rosamund tonight and send you the swing version.

And I've heard the Rickman sonnet. ::drools:: My God, that man could read a phonebook and I'd probably faint. Him and Jeremy Irons.

[yrmencyn.livejournal.com]

Well the only Marlowe I own is a Dover Thrift edition of "Tamerlaine", so I'm out of this contest. But I wanted to mention: wow! someone who's actual name is Havelock. I've only seen that as a character name in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

LOL. Well, he's a late Victorian essayist, so in all honesty, the name shouldn't be all that surprising. They all had weird names. Like Lytton Strachey for instance...

[pixidala.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this is like my collection of copies of "Catcher in the Rye"! Because, you know, I see it on the shelves and you just can't let that one sit there, it calls to you... oh wait, I've said too much ;-)

I've started to collect books in multiple languages now. I really want to get the Shakespeare in Japanese that I saw not too long ago...

[rosamund.livejournal.com]

OK, off the top of my head...

MARLOWE
Marlowe: Complete Plays (sans Massacre)
Marlowe: Complete Plays (avec Massacre)
Marlowe: Complete Poems and Translations
Marlowe: Dr Faustus
Marlowe: Edward II

ABOUT MARLOWE: NON-FICTION
The Reckoning - Charles Nicholl
Marlowe: A Literary Life - Lisa Hopkins
Who Killed Kit Marlowe? - M.J. Trow & Taliesin Trow

ABOUT MARLOWE: FICTION
Dead Man in Deptford - Anthony Burgess
The Armor of Light - Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett
To Be A King - Robert DeMaria
Sandman collections A Doll's House and Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
Entered From the Sun - George Garrett
Ruled Britannia - Harry Turtledove
Tamburlaine Must Die - Louise Welsh
This Tragic Glass - Elizabeth Bear
The Stratford Man - Elizabeth Bear

TANGENTIALLY RELATED
Homosexuality in Renaissance England - Alan Bray

I'll have a look at home and see whether anything else presents itself.

Oh and, of course, there's the 1887 Complete Plays with the foreword by JA Symonds and the essay by Havelock Ellis I will have sometime.