Edward II - Christopher Marlow
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Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury, England, on February 6, 1564. On May 30, 1593, he was killed in Deptford, outside of London. Marlowe went to King's School in Canterbury and Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, where he got his B.A. in 1584 and M.A. in 1587. He went to Corpus Christi College on a scholarship that was usually given to students studying for the ministry. But instead of following orders, he started writing plays and, it seems, getting involved in politics. He didn't get his master's degree until the Privy Council helped him get it because he had done good work for the queen. Many people still don't know how much Marlowe was involved in government business. During his time at Cambridge, he wrote his first plays and poems, like the first part of Tamberlaine and maybe Dido, Queen of Carthage. However, the public theatres soon drew him to London, where he spent the rest of his short, violent life.
In 1589, he and another playwright, Thomas Watson, killed William Bradley in Norton Folgate. They claimed self-defense and were found not guilty. By this time, it seems like Marlowe was known for having religious and political ideas that were different from the norm. In May 1593, he was arrested for being an atheist, but he died in a fight at Deptford before he could be brought to court. His attackers, Ingram Frizer, Robert Poley, and Nicholas Skeres, have been linked to shady political dealings, and it is possible (and some say likely) that Marlowe was killed to protect the Walsingham family's interests.
Marlowe got his start in writing by translating works by Lucan and Ovid. When he turned to Vergil's Aeneid, he did so as a playwright, with Dido, Queen of Carthage as the subject. In Tamburlaine the Great, Part I, Marlowe brought blank verse to the English stage. This may be his most important contribution to theatre. This play is an amazing example of how free the Renaissance mind was, and because of that, it took London by storm, even though it looks like it was put on in very basic conditions. The sequel, which was written and performed around 1587, is more professional and shows some dramatic progress. The Jew of Malta is a typical revenge play full of horrors and sensationalism. It was likely influenced by Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, which was written around 1585–1589. The only thing left of The Massacre at Paris is a badly damaged copy, but even this shows some of the original's energy and dramatic power. Many critics have unfairly panned this play, but it was probably the best of its kind. Edward II is the first real English historical tragedy and an important precursor to William Shakespeare's great history plays. It shows how much Marlowe's tragic genius has grown and changed.
Different scholars have different ideas about when Doctor Faustus, Marlowe's best work, was written. In the past, it was thought to have been made for the first time in 1592 or 1593. But by the 1990s, many, if not most, scholars thought it was first performed in 1588 or 1589. Most of this play was written by Marlowe, but the scenes that are meant to be funny but aren't are almost certainly the work of someone else. No one knows for sure what the real script of the play is.
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