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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe 1564-93, English dramatist and poet, b. Canterbury. Probably the greatest English dramatist before Shakespeare, Marlowe, a shoemaker's son, was educated at Cambridge and he went to London in 1587, where he became an actor and dramatist for the Lord Admiral's Company. His most... Read more |
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Hero (Greek)
Hero in Greek mythology, priestess of Aphrodite in Sestos. Her lover, Leander, swam the Hellespont nightly from Abydos to see her. During a storm the light by which she guided him blew out, and he drowned. Hero, in despair, then threw herself into the sea. Christopher Marlowe's poem Hero and... Read more |
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Alexander Dyce
Alexander Dyce , 1798-1869, Scottish editor. He is best known for his scholarly editions of the works of Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, including those of George Peele, Robert Greene, John Webster, Christopher Marlowe, Beaumont and Fletcher, and a nine-volume edition of Shakespeare (rev. ed.... Read more |
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Lewisham
Lewisham , inner borough (1991 pop. 215,300) of Greater London, SE England, on the Thames. It is mainly residential with a large shopping center, but there is some light engineering. Lewisham, which was noted in Elizabethan times for its cattle market and royal dockyard, trades in timber. The writer... Read more |
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chronicle plays
chronicle plays dramas based upon 16th-century chronicles in English, particularly those of Edward Hall and Raphael Holinshed . These plays became very popular late in the reign of Elizabeth I, when, in a burst of patriotism, the public became interested in the history of their country. Starting... Read more |
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Faust
Faust , Faustus , or Johann Faust , fl. 16th cent., learned German doctor who traveled widely, performed magical feats, and died under mysterious circumstances. According to legend he had sold his soul to the devil (personified by Mephistopheles in many literary versions) in exchange for... Read more |
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Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd 1558-94, English dramatist, b. London. The son of a scrivener, he evidently followed his father's profession for a few years. In the 1580s he began writing plays. His literary fame rests on The Spanish Tragedy (c.1586), which initiated an important Elizabethan dramatic genre—the... Read more |
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tragedy
tragedy form of drama that depicts the suffering of a heroic individual who is often overcome by the very obstacles he is struggling to remove. The protagonist may be brought low by a character flaw or, as Hegel stated, caught in a "collision of equally justified ethical aims." See also ... Read more |
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William Marlow
Marlow, William (b London, 1740; d Twickenham, Middlesex [now Greater London], ?14 Jan. 1813). English landscape and marine painter, a pupil of Samuel Scott and possibly also of Richard Wilson. His early landscapes were topographical views, including pictures of country houses, but after a visit... Read more |
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Julia Marlowe
Marlowe, Julia [née Sarah Frances Frost] (1866–1950), actress. Born in England, at the age of four, she was brought by her mother to America where the family assumed the name of Brough. It was as Fanny Brough that she made her stage debut in 1879 in one of the many juvenile troupes of... Read more |
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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe.(Brief Article)
Christopher Marlowe, admired poet, successful...staggering amount of research on Marlowe's companions at that...riffraff. So who were Marlowe's companions? Two...s death was calculated murder, arranged because the... |
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Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy.(Book review)
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. By PARK...tension of Christopher Marlowe's life is captured...recknynge' (p. 376)), Marlowe's death remains ambiguous...Charles Nicholl's The Reckoning: The Murder of ... |
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Beyond morality.(Constance Brown Kuriyama, Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance...
...Constance Brown Kuriyama Christopher Marlowe: a Renaissance Life...35 Christopher Marlowe's life lasted for...other. On that day Marlowe, who had been summoned...Nicholl. Nicholl's The Reckoning: The Murder ... |
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Marlowe's death: an intriguing theory
THE RECKONING The Murder of Christopher Marlowe By Charles Nicholl Harcourt Brace...account of the matter, Christopher Marlowe died in a tavern brawl. He was...The actual circumstances of Marlowe's death after ... |
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Marlowe play avoids burning issue.
...avoid upsetting Muslims. Christopher Marlowe's 1580s masterpiece Tamburlaine...Nicholl, author of The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, said: "Why should Islam...the questioning gaze of Marlowe? ... |
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New in Paperback
...and not that smart." The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, by Charles Nicholl (University...14.95). Christopher Marlowe, "the Muse's darling...for nonfiction, starts with Marlowe's reported ... |
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More than a divine plan, a scholarly field guide to the Enlightenment
...notoriously decadent Frederick Rolfe, author of "Hadrian the Seventh") and Charles Nicholl's "The Reckoning" (about the murder of Christopher Marlowe). Initially trained as a classicist, Trevor-Roper specialized in the intellectual history... |
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A vivid portrait of a tenant named shakespeare.(Daily Break)
...you'd be wrong. His earlier book on the murder of Christopher Marlowe ("The Reckoning") is a classic case of teasing added knowledge...rented room in Silver Street above the shop of Christopher Mountjoy, wife Marie and daughter Mary... |
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The World of Christopher Marlowe.(Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy)(Brief...
Marlowe, Christopher The World of Christopher Marlowe. David Riggs...Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy...of Christopher Marlowe and Park Honan...expertly wove in The Reckoning. ... |
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The devil's music.(Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy)(Book review)
Park Honan Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. Oxford...biography of Christopher Marlowe (aka Morley, Marley...Death of Christopher Marlowe make public the...speculation about murder, feigned ... |
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