The Marlowe Canon (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Marlowe Canon

The percentage of riming lines decreases pretty regularly as the percent age oi final polysyllables increases. If we take the polysyllables as a mark of Marlowe's hand, the largest traces of that poet would seem to be in the scenes dealing with Dido's first meeting with [eneas and the tale of Troy's destruction (with a falling off in the latter portion - lines 500-600 - which includes the story of Priam's death); and in the scenes portraying the development of ...