The Plays of Christopher Marlowe
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DRAMATIS PERSONS
Persian lords. Mycetes, King of Persia. Cosroe, his brother. Meander, Theridamas, Ortygius, Ceneus, Menaphon, Tamburlaine,’ a Scythian shepherd. Techelles, Usumcasane, hts followers. Bajazeth, Emperor of the Turks. King of Fez. King of Morocco. King of Argier. Median lords. King of Arabia. Soldan of Egypt. Governor of Damascus. Agydas, Magnetes, J” Capolin, an Egyptian. Philemus, Bassoes, Lords, Citizens, Moors, Soldiers, and Attendants. Zenocrate, daughter to the Soldan of Egypt. Anippe, her maid. Zabina, wife to Bajazeth. Ebea, her maid. Virgins of Damascus.
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- The words
- The author's text, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 509 places
- Specks on the scan's first page read as characters by the OCR (5 blocks)
- The Internet Archive's digitization notice (4 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 4 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 11 places
- The scanning library's stamp (the OCR reads it in pieces) (9 blocks)
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- A speck read by the OCR as “V” between two lines (“V”)
- The printer's imprint (“THE TEMPLE PRESS, PRINTERS, LETCHWORTH”)
- Other material that isn't the author's
- Notes about a stage production