In addition to this writer's verse translations of Lucan's Pharsalia and Ovid's Elegies and Amores, his work includes a poem in which one of the title character's is mistaken for Ganymede and nearly drowned by Neptune; his version of "Hero and Leander" was finished by George Chapman.
In addition to this writer's verse translations of Lucan's Pharsalia and Ovid's Elegies and Amores, his work includes a poem in which one of the title character's is mistaken for Ganymede and nearly drowned by Neptune; his version of "Hero and Leander" was finished by George Chapman. He also wrote a mostly lost play that describes the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, in particular the misdeeds of the Duc de Guise. In one of his works, the title character poisons his daughter for becoming a Christian, and in another play, the title character strikes a 24-year deal before eternal damnation. Who is this English dramatist, author of the histories The Massacre at Paris and Edward II, and, for 10 points, the tragedies Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta?
In addition to this writer's verse translations of Lucan's Pharsalia and Ovid's Elegies and Amores, his work includes a poem in which one of the title character's is mistaken for Ganymede and nearly drowned by Neptune; his version of "Hero and Leander" was finished by George Chapman.
Christopher Marlowe