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

Comments

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.