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Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. He is among the most famous of Shakespeare's contemporaries, though he died at the young age of 29. Marlowe's work is known for its blank verse, rich imagery, and often grandiose themes exploring ambition, power, and the nature of good and evil.
Learn about the life and achievements of Christopher Marlowe, a poet and dramatist who influenced Shakespeare and other 16th-century writers. Read his poems and plays, such as Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, and Doctor Faustus.
A romantic poem by the Elizabethan playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe, inviting a shepherdess to live with him in a pastoral paradise. The poem describes the pleasures of nature, love, and marriage with vivid imagery and sensual language.
Read the first sestiad of Marlowe's epic poem Hero and Leander, a tragic love story of two lovers separated by the Hellespont. Learn about the characters' beauty, fame, and fate, and the goddess Venus' role in their affair.
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By Christopher Marlowe. It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect. Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: The reason no man knows; let it suffice.
Elegies, Book One, 5. By Christopher Marlowe. after Ovid. In summer’s heat and mid-time of the day. To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay, One window shut, the other open stood, Which gave such light as twinkles in a wood, Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun. Or night being past, and yet not day begun.
Read poems by the Elizabethan dramatist and translator, including his famous 'Hero and Leander' and 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'. Learn about his life, works and legacy from the Poetry Archive.
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