Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Christopher Marlowe: Selected; With a Prefatory Notice, Biographical and Critical The Massacre of Paris, and Edward II. The drama of Dido, Queen of Carthage, may have been begun by the poet in his first and feeblest period of authorship, but it was found unfinished at his death. Nash is thought to have helped to complete it, and possibly the duller parts of this incoherent play were written by him. Besides these dramas, Marlowe made poems and translations. He began to tell in most exquisite verse the lovely story of Hero and Leander. But he was only able to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.