Come live with me, and be my love; / And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods or steepy mountain yields. —“The Passionate Shepherd to his Love .” Christopher
Christopher Marlowe 1564–93, English dramatist and poet, b. Canterbury. Probably the greatest English dramatist before Shakespeare, Marlowe 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 important plays are the two parts of Tamburlaine the Great (c.1587), Dr. Faustus (c.1588), The Jew of Malta (c.1589), and Edward II (c.1592).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Introductory Note from Harvard Classics. ) Pronunciation: mär´l from The American Heritage®
WORKS
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Marlowe was the first to turn the Faustian myth into a morality play; it remains an apogee of Elizabethan drama. From the Harvard Classics
Edward the Second
From the Harvard Classics
Bartlett’s Marlowe Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
Marlowe, Christopher, 37920 to 37956
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE
Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Gold) ; Passionate Shepherd to His Love (OBEV)
WRITINGS ABOUT MARLOWE
“Marlowe and Kyd ”
Chapter by G. Gregory Smith with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature
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