Marlowe, Christopher
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Marlowe, Christopher (1564–93). English playwright, poet, and spy. Born in Canterbury, he was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His plays, beginning with
Dido, Queen of Carthage (
c. 1587), are energetic, restless, generically daring explorations of selfhood. Success came with his two‐part epic of ambition and war,
Tamburlaine (1587–8), and between 1588 and 1593 he wrote four more plays:
The Massacre at Paris,
The Jew of Malta,
Doctor Faustus, and
Edward II. Shortly after a warrant for his arrest was issued in May 1593 on charges of atheism and Marlowe was killed, apparently in a pub brawl.
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Looking for Christopher Marlowe.(Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy)(The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe)(The World of Christopher Marlowe)(Book review)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...David. 2004. The World of Christopher Marlowe. New York: Henry Holt and...Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge University Press...fortune to publish The World of Christopher Marlowe soon after the premiere of Stephen...
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Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Park Honan. Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy. Oxford: Oxford...1940s, students of Christopher Marlowe now have three substantial biographies...absence of a bibliography. Honan's Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy is rich fare: impressive...
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Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. By PARK HONAN...s The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (London: Cape, 1992), the first systematic attempt to place Marlowe's murder in the context of Elizabethan...
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Review of Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies; 5/1/2006; 700+ words
; Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy. Oxford: Oxford UP...Review of Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy." Early Modern Literary...regarding the facts of Christopher Marlowe's life is fairly thin on the ground...
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The devil's music.(Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy)(Book review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Park Honan Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy...biography of Christopher Marlowe (aka Morley, Marley...Riggs's recent World of Christopher Marlowe, which eschews...facts. In the case of Marlowe, the task is more difficult...
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An imaginary life; Christopher Marlowe.(Christopher Marlowe: the man who might have been)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...of the pleasures of reading about Christopher Marlowe is that it provides an antidote to...Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe. By Rodney Bolt. The World of Christopher Marlowe. By David Riggs.
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THE WORLD OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/15/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...dagger poet THE WORLD OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE by David Riggs Faber...author. Christopher Marlowe, by contrast, is a...biography The World of Christopher Marlowe. He adopts...investigates the lives of Marlowe's college contemporaries...
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Review of Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies; 9/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...eds. Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Fresh Cultural Contexts...Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe: Fresh Cultural Contexts...Mothers and Their Sons in Christopher Marlowe', Joyce Karpay discusses early...
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Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...V.v.73). In Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance...centralizing thesis: that Marlowe is significant in the...misunderstanding: that "Marlowe (Christopher) [is] the Dramatist...Unlike Shakespeare, Marlowe is not primarily a dramatist...
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The man who wasn't there.(The World of Christopher Marlowe)(Tamburlaine Must Die)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 3/21/2005; ; 700+ words
; THE WORLD OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. By David Riggs. Holt. 411 pp...149 pp. $18.95. Christopher Marlowe's life was short, sharp and...follows Constance Brown Kuriyama's Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life, published...
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Marlowe, Christopher (1564–1593)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564 – 1593) MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER (1564 – 1593), English dramatist...Shakespeare, William . BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources Marlowe, Christopher. The Complete Plays. Edited by J. B. Steane. Harmondsworth...
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Christopher Marlowe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Christopher Marlowe The English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was the first English playwright to reveal...Although a number of English dramatists before Christopher Marlowe had achieved some notable successes in the field of comedy...
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Marlowe, Christopher (1564–1593)
Book article from: The Renaissance
Marlowe, Christopher (1564 – 1593) English playwright...Some historical documents indicate that Marlowe was engaged by the minister Sir Francis...piecing together the obscure details of Marlowe's life and writing career. In the...
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Marlowe, Christopher
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Marlowe, Christopher (1564–93). In 1589 he...tavern after a quarrel over a bill; Marlowe was at the time under warrant to appear...may both belong to the last year of Marlowe's life. At various times he translated...
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Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...in 1562. Tragedy. Influential tragedies included Christopher Marlowe's opulent and exotic two-part tragedy Tamburlaine...s moral history King Johan (c. 1539) through Marlowe's Edward II (c. 1592), Shakespeare's first...
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