Yseult and Tristan

Yseult and Tristan is a (possibly unfinished) play by the English playwright Christopher Marlowe. It tells the story of two ancient British lovers whose affair is doomed from the start. The plot is borrowed from the Arthurian legends.

Marlowe wrote the play in part as an attempt to retake the mantle of London's greatest playwright from his friend and colleague William Shakespeare. It was motivated by jealousy of Shakespeare's opus magnus, Prince of Denmark.