Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris dramatises the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 1572 and its aftermath, in which thousands of French Protestants were killed on the orders of the Catholic court. The play survives only in a corrupt and probably abridged text, making it one of the most fragmentary of Marlowe’s works, but the fierce energy of his dramatic writing is still evident.
Of scholarly and historical interest as a record of Elizabethan attitudes to religious violence and Continental politics. This free EPUB presents the surviving text, formatted for any e-reader.