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Hace 6 días · This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe is a playwright whose work taps into the central concerns of his age, many of which are still important to us - religious uncertainty, the clash between Islam and Christianity, the discovery of America, ideas of sexuality ...
Hace 5 días · Christopher Marlowe was the earliest of the popular playwrights of the time. His work dealt with mainly tragic subjects, characterized by heroes brought down by their ego. He used his plays as a means of political activism, a dangerous concept in an era where dissenters were frequently beheaded by monarchs.
Hace 2 días · Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an influential English playwright, poet, and translator during the Elizabethan era. He is widely regarded as one of the most famous playwrights of that time. His play Tamburlaine was so popular that it inspired many imitations, ...
Hace 2 días · After “the loud laughter” (as the New York Times described it) subsided, Flanagan explained, “I was quoting from Christopher Marlowe” — the 16th-century English playwright.
Hace 2 días · Around 1592, English playwright Christopher Marlowe, born the same year as Shakespeare, wrote “Doctor Faustus,” a play about a scholar who aspires to know everything.
Hace 3 días · The debate over authorship includes theories that the books were written by Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Bassano’s name is a relatively recent ...
Hace 6 días · These are reliable, expertly edited, and free digital Shakespeare texts for use by researchers. Starting from the Folger Editions of Shakespeare's works edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine, Folger Digital Texts uses XML to create a highly articulate indexing system. Researchers can read the plays online, download PDFs for offline reading ...
