Quotes from Christopher Marlowe's books, and about them
The Satanic Verses on Tamburlaine the Great: “an antique theatre review in which the English critic, Kenneth Tynan, had imagined the polysyllabic characters in Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great as 'a horde of pills and wonder drugs bent on decimating one another'”
The Secret History on Doctor Faustus: “I often thought of these lines of his, from Doctor Faustus: I think my master shortly means to die / For he hath given me all his goods…”