Christopher
Marlowe (1564-1593)Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the year of
William Shakespeare's birth.
Marlowe was educated at Cambridge and was involved in difficulties
there with the authorities with regard to the granting of
his Master of Arts degree in 1587. It seems that Marlowe refused to
take holy orders and that he was suspected of
"converting" to Roman Catholicism. However, the government authorities
intervened in Marlowe's behalf, and the degree was
granted. Marlowe, at this time, undoubtedly was active in some form
of government service.
The
Complete Works of Marlowe elcome to the first World Wide Web edition
of the complete works of Christopher Marlowe. This site provides an edition
of Marlowe's works that begins to transcend the limits of print publication
and exploit the flexibility of an electronic medium.
We are committed to reaching as broad an audience as possible and so
offer this site at no cost to users. Included here are
all of Marlowe's plays, his two known poetic works, Hero and Leander
and The Passionate Shepheard to His Love, his
translations of Ovid and Lucan, and the short miscellaneous works attributed
to Marlowe, a dedicatory epistle to Mary, the
Countess of Pembroke and the epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood. You may
access these texts through the site's index of
Marlowe's works. Our edition of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus provides a
particularly interesting case study of some of the
editorial possibilities opened up in the shift from print to the electronic
medium.
Christopher
Marlowe. 1565-1593. Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations When
all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Faustus.
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William
Shakespeare. 1564-1616. Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations Small
have continual plodders ever won
Save base authority from others' books.
These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights
That give a name to every fixed star
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Ibid.
William
Shakespeare Due to his success, many would assume that Shakespeare
was
born and raised
in a wealthy noble family. However, he was born in
what would have
been a middle class family in their time. He was
born in the
small English town of Stratford-upon-Avon. The town was
mainly a market
square, so it was quite lively. There were many
events such
as pageants and shows. Also there was plenty of
beautiful countryside
surrounding the town.
Shakespeare
and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock This presents an overview--with
graphics--of various historical stage depictions of Shylock from the 16th
Century to the early 20th
Century. What these stage depictions reveal is that the character
of Shylock has been presented along a continuum from hostility and
hatred to sympathy and respect. The variance
in these depictions does little to resolve the issue of how anti-semitism
relates to
Shakespeare's text. But this variance does reveal how an actor's
interpretation of the play-text, and how the particular circumstances of
a
theatrical production, can inflect the characters in the play-text
in such a way that the audience's responses are manipulated either to
empathize with or to revile a particular character.
Shakespeare's
Works At the time the history of these ladies commences some young
men of high rank in the army, as
they were passing through Messina on their return from a war that was just
ended, in which they
had distinguished themselves by their great bravery, came to visit Leonato.
Among these were
Don Pedro, the prince of Aragon; and his friend Claudio, who was a lord
of Florence-, and with
them came the wild and witty Benedick, and he was a lord of Padua.
Shakespeare
Word Frequency Lists
We have constructed frequency lists
of all the words used in the most
popularly studied of Shakespeare's plays,
arranged both alphabetically and by
frequency. Such lists can be fun and
useful for identifying themes or jogging
the memory. Lists are entirely the product
of machine manipulation -- they have not
been vetted or editted.
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splash screen Now I but chide; but I should use thee worse,
For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse,
If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,
Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,
And kill me too.
The sun was not so true unto the day
As he to me: would he have stolen away
From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon
This whole earth may be bored and that the
moon
May through the centre creep and so displease
Her brother's noontide with Antipodes.
It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him;
So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.
LookSmart
- Christopher Marlowe Biographies From Luminarium, an online anthology
of English literature from medieval times
through the early seventeenth
century, this site provides useful background
information about Marlowe's life
and works.