Christopher Marlowe
by: laxmaniac152
If you are reading Romeo and Juliet it would help to know about other playwrights living and working the same time as Shakespeare, such as Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe was a very important playwright and he was one of the first playwrights to write in blank verse. He was a very mysterious man and had a very short life, living to only 29.
Christopher Marlowe was on of the most accomplished playwrights. Her was a very well known playwright and had many famous pieces such as Dido, Queen of Carthage and Tamburlaine The Great. Some of his other plays were, The Jew of Malta, The Tradgical History of Doctor Faustus, and Massacre at Paris. Christopher Marlowe was said to be the master of blank verse. Blank verse is a poem or piece of writing in which there is no rhyming. Other playwrights had used blank verse before Marlowe but no one had used it as well as him. Christopher Marlowe was a pioneer in the playwright world.
Christopher Marlowe’s life outside his work was quite strange. He was thought to be a spy. It has been thought that he was a spy for Queen Elizabeth herself in the royal secret service. Marlowe was also rumored to be a homosexual, a magician, and a counterfeiter. Marlowe earned his bachelor of the arts degree at Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. Christopher Marlowe was also known for his untimely death. He died at the age of 29 in a bar fight. He was stabbed in the eye with a blade that pierced his brain killing him instantly. Except for his early death, Christopher Marlowe had a very successful life.
Christopher Marlowe was perhaps one of the most important playwrights in history. He had many famous plays and had mastered a new style of righting called blank verse. Little is known about his life except that he was a very successful man.
Works Cited
Nardo,Don. Great Elizabethan Playwrights. Farmington Hills: Thomsom Gale, 2003.
