Introduction: "Small things with greater may be copulate": Marlowe the Ovidian -- Marlowe, theatrical speech, and the epicenter of sonnetdom: the elegies -- Tamburlaine and "the argument of every epigram or eligie" -- Parts that no eye should behold: Dido and the desultor -- "It is no pain to speak men fair": the desultor in Edward II -- The massacre at Paris: the desultor as playwright -- "Loue alwaies makes those eloquent that haue it": Ovid in Hero and Leander -- Lente, lente: Doctor Faustus and the elegies -- Ovid in the Jew of Malta