The Complete Plays
1593 · 702 pages
Faustus signs away his soul for twenty-four years of power, Tamburlaine the shepherd burns his way across Asia, and Barabas poisons a convent. Marlowe gave English drama its first tragic grandeur.
★ 6.9
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Boy with a Basket of Fruit
1593 · Galleria Borghese, Rome
Fruit already spotting toward rot, painted with the same attention as the boy holding it. An early statement of what Caravaggio intended.
★ 6.6
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
The Jew of Malta · 1593