The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe - Books - Independently Published - 9798683808570 - September 18, 2020
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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

During the blockade of Antwerp by the Prince of Parma in 1585, "They of Antuerpe knowing that the bridge and the Stocadoes were finished, made a great shippe, to be a meanes to breake all this worke of the prince of Parmaes: this great shippe was made of masons worke within, in the manner of a vaulted caue: vpon the hatches there were layed myll-stones, graue-stones, and others of great weight; and within the vault were many barrels of powder, ouer the which there were holes, and in them they had put matches, hanging at a thred, the which burning vntill they came vnto the thred, would fall into the powder, and so blow vp all. And for that they could not haue any one in this shippe to conduct it, Lanckhaer, a sea captaine of the Hollanders, being then in Antuerpe, gaue them counsell to tye a great beame at the end of it, to make it to keepe a straight course in the middest of the streame

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 18, 2020
ISBN13 9798683808570
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 58
Dimensions 178 × 254 × 3 mm   ·   117 g
Language English  

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