Essay on The Influential Life of Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe was known as a great writer and he might have done well if he did not die at a young age. Marlowe and Shakespeare have been known to share the average word length of 4.2 letters in their writing. Marlowe

Water supports a seed to grow into a beautiful flower, just as Christopher Marlowe’s works watered the seed of the Renaissance and Elizabethan literature. The Renaissance was characterized by new ideas and thinking, which created many influential writers from this time. Christopher Marlowe is known as a talented writer from the late sixteenth through early eighteenth centuries. He and many other writers of this time created new ways of writing and impacted it in other ways. Marlowe was considered the most important playwright before Shakespeare, but his entire career lasted six years because of his untimely death when he was twenty-nine. His most famous work, Doctor Faustus, is based on the Faust Legend, a German classic, in which a scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for more power and knowledge (Biography.com). Christopher Marlowe’s tragic play, The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus, had major influences in the development of Elizabethan literature during the mid-sixteenth century in England.

Since the 18th century, there has been doubts regarding whether William Shakespeare really is the author of the works of literature that he has been credited for. The debate has been going on for years and a few candidates, like Edward De Vere and Christopher Marlowe, have been brought up to the spotlight of the argument. However, the research that has been done so far demonstrates that Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the top contender. There is a fair amount of evidence that supports the theory that this man is the real ‘‘Shakespeare’’. Because he was a nobleman, he had the opportunity to obtain a high education and travel. Only someone with such education could write about the complex and detailed topics of these works. Another very

William Shakespeare; also known as the "Bard of Avon”, was an English poet, writer, and an actor. He was regarded by many as one of the greatest writer of all time. Shakespeare is responsible for the invention of over 1700 common words that contributes the English language vocabulary. He was a managing partner for The Lord Chamberlain's

Christopher Marlowe is a very accomplished writer that has been an unquestionable influence on play writing. He wrote poems that are still as popular and relevant today as they were back when Marlowe wrote them (Leech). Marlowe’s writing career was a short-lived on that lasted only six years as a result of his short-lived life because he died at the young age of just twenty-nine (Leech). He writing career might have then cut short but it was a strong and influential one than was full of experiential writing and memorable text (“Christopher Marlowe Biography”). Marlowe was negatively affected by others around him as a result of the desire to be loved and accepted by others around him and it ended in his demise.

As we all know William Shakespeare was a well known and a highly sought after writer, but did he really deserve all that fame? As early as 1709, with Nicholas Rowe 's publication of his edition of Shakespeare 's works, the little information that we had about William Shakespeare began to show. Other than several early minor accounts, the preface of Nicholas Rowe 's edition contained the first biography of William Shakespeare. Rowe presented eleven known facts about Shakespeare 's life. By 1821, however, Edmond Malone in one of his editions of Shakespeare he claims that eight of Rowe 's facts were incorrect. Around the early twentieth century, a few more questionable discoveries had been made about Shakespeare 's life and biographies that contained a lot of speculation was published. Given the scarcity of biographical facts, speculation arose as to whether or not it was even probable that a man with Shakespeare 's background could have wrote the plays and poems credited to Shakespeare. Since what is known regarding Shakespeare 's life exposes little concerning his education or literary experience.

Ellis-Fermor considers that in Tamburlaine, “there is much that is not effective rhetoric.” In this case, Marlowe’s images are not in harmony with the emotions forming the background of the passage and serve rather to illustrate them than to imply any association. There is no harmony between the individual image and its setting. The imagery in Tamburlaine does not lack power, though it is most effective when one rhetorical image leads on to another. Tamburlaine’s description of his triumph in the last act of Part I is an example of such effective, cumulative series of little pictures which according to Ellis-Fermor “no one… can be picked out as having the quality of poetry.” There are showers of blood and meteors in Africa, there are mentions of Jove, the Furies and Death, dead kings lie at Tamburlaine’s

Christopher Marlowe worked with William Shakespeare, who was also very popular in the sixteenth century. Marlowe was usually the leader in writing the plays; on the other hand, Shakespeare ¨was able to bring his art to a higher perfection¨ (Gill). For example, in

Elizabethan drama remains some of the most appreciated and world-renowned to ever exist. Despite its early foundation in the mid-16th century to early 17th century, plays from William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe, almost five hundred years later are regularly produced and performed to a modern audience. ‘No dramatist, living or dead, has been more frequently reprinted or performed, or translated into a greater variety of languages…Shakespeare in performance is now reaching larger audiences than ever before in history’. (S.Schoenbaum, 1979) One of the main reasons for the longevity of Elizabethan theatrical success was the construction of ‘The Globe Theatre’ in 1599. With the construction of The Globe came notable improvements in special effects, costumes, makeup and the size of audiences attending the performances.

Since Marlowe’s mind had become complex early on it carried over to his writing which assisted in his career as a play write, but Christopher Marlowe was not only a play write; he was also a government spy. Marlowe would often miss school long lengths at a time. The reason for his absence was unknown at the time, in fact, he was almost unable to graduate because of his unknown absences. Marlowe was often questioned about being a spy, especially by other authors and play writes. We now know that the questions were correct and he was a government spy. Marlowe was also the teacher of Arbella Stuart who was an English Noblewoman.

This research paper covers the contents of Christopher Marlowe’s play, Edward II to exhaustively illustrate the main themes of the work. The author chose to represent this play as an illustration of the existence of the society, its structures, and how the people co-existed in the medieval period of history. Certain expressions of society 's practices have been illustrated in the play including the reaction people had to the status quo and the difficulty in accepting the norms that were new and seemingly out of place in their society. Various writers have explained and analyzed the play to view different themes and the character’s contributions as used by Marlowe. The play shows us the central nature and essence of the society 's co-existence in its period.

In doing so they illustrated all that was best in the culture and values of the society of their time. Christopher Marlowe was one of them. Despite his apparently violent and supposedly of a volatile temperament, Marlowe managed to write some of the most delicate and beautiful works on record. His writing is representative of the spirit of the Elizabethan literature in his opinion about religion, his choice of writing style and in the metre that he used. His work is representative of the spirit of the Elizabethan age in that Marlowe used drama as his chief form of writing, his subject matters were representative of his age (the loss of belief in the church, and he wrote in iambic pentameter which became very popular before the end of this

There has been much debate about Marlowe’s love for colour and for strong, simple tones. According to Ellis-Fermor, Marlowe does not have a “subtle colour-sense.” In both parts of Tamburlaine, the author speaks only about blood-red, black, gold, crystal, silver and milk-white. The effects that the author achieves by using only these images are so shocking that we forget that there is no mention of the green of grass, the blue of sky, brown or grey of the English landscape. This is because Marlowe intentionally uses tones that match his decorative scheme, colours representing only a contribution to the form of the poem.

arlowe, unlike his dramatic predecessors, invented a style of speech that defines more particularly the motivation and the passion that drives Tamburlaine and charms his allies. For them, and, to a certain degree, for the audience as well, to listen to Tamburlaine is comparable to seduction. Come live with me and be my love is in Part I transformed into Come war with me and be my tributary kings.

Ellis-Fermor considers that in Tamburlaine, “there is much that is not effective rhetoric.” In this case, Marlowe’s images are not in harmony with the emotions forming the background of the passage and serve rather to illustrate them than to imply any association. There is no harmony between the individual image and its setting. The imagery in Tamburlaine does not lack power, though it is most effective when one rhetorical image leads on to another. Tamburlaine’s description of his triumph in the last act of Part I is an example of such effective, cumulative series of little pictures which according to Ellis-Fermor “no one… can be picked out as having the quality of poetry.” There are showers of blood and meteors in Africa, there are mentions of Jove, the Furies and Death, dead kings lie at Tamburlaine’s feet. This is not a way of poetic imagery.