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Christopher Marlowe (/ ˈmɑːrloʊ / MAR-loh; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. [a] Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights.
Sep 28, 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.
Aug 16, 2023 · Christopher Marlowe was a poet and playwright at the forefront of the 16th-century dramatic renaissance.
Marlowe was born in Canterbury in 1564 of a family that originated in Ospringe, today part of Faversham. His father, John, was a cobbler. Christopher went to King’s School, and was awarded a Matthew Parker scholarship which enabled him to study at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from late 1580 until 1587, when he was awarded his MA.
The achievement of Christopher Marlowe, poet and dramatist, was enormous—surpassed only by that of his exact contemporary, William Shakespeare. A few months the elder, Marlowe was usually the leader, although Shakespeare was able to bring his art to a higher perfection.
Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 93) Marlowe was born in Canterbury in 1564, the son of an upmarket shoemaker and a clergyman's daughter. Baptised on 26 February, he was only two months older than Shakespeare, who was baptised on 26 April of the same year.
Sep 28, 2024 · Professor of English, University of Toronto, 1963–74. Author of The Dramatist's Experience with Other Essays in Critical Theory and others; editor of Marlowe: A Collection of Critical Essays.
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May 18, 2018 · Christopher Marlowe >The English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was the first English >playwright to reveal the full potential of dramatic blank verse and the >first to exploit the tragic implications of Renaissance humanism.
Oct 2, 2024 · Scholars recognize Marlowe as the first English dramatist to reveal the full potential of blank verse poetry, and as one who made significant advances in the genre of English tragedy through keen examinations of Renaissance morality. Marlowe wrote during the Elizabethan period, a time of change and uncertainty.
Christopher ("Kit") Marlowe (baptized February 26, 1564 – May 30, 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is considered to be the only playwright of the Elizabethan period whose talents were equal to those of William Shakespeare.
