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Bookmark or Share- Who was Christopher Marlowe | Royal Shakespeare CompanyChristopher Marlowe (1564 – 93) Marlowe was born in Canterbury in 1564, the son of an upmarket shoemaker and a clergyman's daughter. Baptised on 26 February, he was only two months older than Shakespeare, who was baptised on 26 April of the same year.
- Christopher Marlowe - New World EncyclopediaChristopher ("Kit") Marlowe (baptized February 26, 1564 – May 30, 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is considered to be the only playwright of the Elizabethan period whose talents were equal to those of William Shakespeare.
- Christopher Marlowe - WikipediaChristopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe ( / ˈmɑːrloʊ /; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. [a] Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights.
- Christopher Marlowe | English Playwright & Poet | BritannicaChristopher Marlowe (baptized Feb. 26, 1564, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.—died May 30, 1593, Deptford, near London) was an Elizabethan poet and Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama, who is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse.
- Christopher Marlowe - Plays, Poetry, Influence | BritannicaWorks. of Christopher Marlowe In the earliest of Marlowe’s plays, the two-part Tamburlaine the Great ( c. 1587; published 1590), Marlowe’s characteristic “mighty line” (as Ben Jonson called it) established blank verse as the staple medium for later Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic writing.
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