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Mar 25, 2024 · Christopher Marlowe (baptized Feb. 26, 1564, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.—died May 30, 1593, Deptford, near London) was an Elizabethan poet and Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama, who is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse.
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- Christopher Marlowe achieved a lot in a short time. Rupert Everett was almost 40 when he portrayed Marlowe in Shakespeare in Love, but Marlowe only lived to age 29.
- Christopher Marlowe wasn’t going to graduate Cambridge until the government intervened. In 1587, Marlowe had the Elizabethan equivalent of too many absences from his master’s program at Cambridge University, and there were rumors that he was preparing to go to France to become a Catholic priest.
- Christopher Marlowe might have been a spy. The "good service" he was doing for Her Majesty? The Privy Council never explained. Nevertheless, the secretive work, the religious nature of the rumors during an era when England persecuted Catholics, and the fact that Queen Elizabeth’s spymaster, Francis Walsingham, often recruited young men attending Cambridge, have created the foundation for the theory that Marlowe was part of a spy network.
- Christopher Marlowe was arrested for counterfeiting coins in Holland. In 1592, about five years after the wild success of Tamburlaine, Marlowe was arrested for counterfeiting coins in the Dutch town of Vlissingen.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (/ ˈ m ɑːr l oʊ /; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. [a] Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights.
- 1564–1593
- English Renaissance
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Churchyard of St. Nicholas, Deptford; unmarked; memorial plaques inside and outside church
Aug 16, 2023 · (1564-1593) Who Was Christopher Marlowe? While Christopher Marlowe's literary career lasted less than six years, and his life only 29 years, his achievements, most notably the play The...
Back to Previous. Christopher Marlowe. 1564–1593. GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo. The achievement of Christopher Marlowe, poet and dramatist, was enormous—surpassed only by that of his exact contemporary, William Shakespeare.
Oct 7, 2016 · 1. Christopher Marlowe was a pioneer of the Elizabethan theatre. He influenced Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s biographer Jonathan Bate has even suggested that Marlowe and Shakespeare became locked in a competition, where each influenced the other. Marlowe was just two months older than Shakespeare: he was born in Canterbury in February 1564 ...
May 18, 2018 · Overview. The achievement of Christopher Marlowe, poet and dramatist, was enormous—surpassed only by that of his exact contemporary William Shakespeare. Most dramatic poets of the sixteenth century followed where Marlowe had led, especially in their use of language and the blank-verse line.
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