Back to top Renaissance drama The first great English dramatist is Marlowe.
He could not, like Marlowe's Mephistophilis or Milton's Satan, regretfully paint the glories of the height from which he has been hurled; for he denies the distinction between high and low, since "everything that comes into being deserves to be destroyed."
In 1593, Marlowe was murdered in a barroom brawl by a drinking companion.
It 's reminiscent of the Philip Marlowe style stories and wonderfully refreshing.
It is true, however, that he was stabbed, like Marlowe, in a midnight brawl at a tavern.
It's reminiscent of the Philip Marlowe style stories and wonderfully refreshing.
Marlowe gave new vigour to the couplet.
Marlowe is a hard-boiled, wisecracking detective with a big streak of integrity down his spine and with a moral code of his own.
Phaer's Virgil, Chapman's Homer, Harrington's Orlando, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, Fairfax's Jerusalem Delivered, North's Plutarch, Hoby's Courtier - to mention only a few examples - placed English readers simultaneously in possession of the most eminent and representative works of Greece, Rome and Italy.
Terror and pity had never found on the stage word or expression which so exactly realized the ideal aim of tragic poetry among the countrymen of Aeschylus and Sophocles since the time or since the passing of Shakespeare, of Marlowe and of Webster.
The Mephostophiles of the Faust-books and the puppet plays passed with little or no modification into literature as the Mephistophilis of Marlowe's Faustus.
Whereas Marlowe is still really zippy, there are lots of things happening and I think Marlowe 's ending is better as well.
Whereas Marlowe is still really zippy, there are lots of things happening and I think Marlowe's ending is better as well.
Whistler works the underbelly of the city in much the same way Marlowe did.