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Christopher Marlowe

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Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the prurient tastes of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence, cruelty, and bloodshed.

Books

Harvard Classics (All 51 Volumes)
Harvard Classics (All 51 Volumes)
Ben Jonson, John Stuart Mill, Euripides, Thomas More, Marcus Aurelius, Sophocles, Daniel Defoe, Dante Alighieri, John Locke, David Hume, Martin Luther, Saint Augustine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Webster, Plato, John Milton, Immanuel Kant, Jacob Grimm, Robert Browning, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Ruskin, Thomas Malory, Aesop, Homer, Virgil, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Darwin, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Voltaire, Thomas Browne, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Niccolo Machiavelli, Miguel de Cervantes, René Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas De Quincey, Aristophanes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plutarch, Wilhelm Grimm, Herodotus, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Dekker, Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, Sydney Smith, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Adam Smith, Christopher Marlowe, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Epictetus, Blaise Pascal, Aeschylus, Alessandro Manzoni, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hans Christian Andersen, Molière, Joseph Addison, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, Pliny the Younger, Friedrich von Schiller, Charles Lamb, Jean Racine, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Henry Dana, Philip Sidney, John Dryden, Ernest Renan, Pierre Corneille, George Gordon Byron, Robert Burns, Abraham Cowley, John Fletcher, Tacitus, William Penn, Ambroise Paré, Francis Beaumont, Walter Raleigh, Michael Faraday, George Berkeley, Leigh Hunt, Simon Newcomb, James Russell Lowell, Philip Massinger, Giuseppe Mazzini, David Garrick, Louis Pasteur, William Henry Harrison, Hippocrates, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Archibald Geikie, Richard Steele, Jean Froissart, Edgar Alan Poe, Francis Drake, Benvenuto Cellini, Francis Pretty, Thomas à Kempis, John Woolman, Joseph Lister, William Roper, Philip Nichols, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, William A. Neilson, Brinsley Sheridan
Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes
Harvard Classics: All 71 Volumes
George Eliot, Ben Jonson, John Stuart Mill, Gottfried Keller, Euripides, Henry James, Thomas More, Marcus Aurelius, Sophocles, Daniel Defoe, Dante Alighieri, John Locke, David Hume, Walter Scott, Martin Luther, Saint Augustine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Webster, Plato, Theodor Fontane, John Milton, Immanuel Kant, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Robert Browning, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Ruskin, Thomas Malory, Aesop, Homer, Virgil, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Darwin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Voltaire, Thomas Browne, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Niccolo Machiavelli, George Sand, Miguel de Cervantes, René Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas De Quincey, Aristophanes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plutarch, Wilhelm Grimm, Herodotus, Laurence Sterne, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Dekker, Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, Sydney Smith, Alfred de Musset, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Adam Smith, Guy de Maupassant, Christopher Marlowe, Jane Austen, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Victor Hugo, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Epictetus, Blaise Pascal, Aeschylus, Alessandro Manzoni, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hans Christian Andersen, Henry Fielding, Washington Irving, Molière, Joseph Addison, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, Pliny the Younger, Friedrich von Schiller, Charles Lamb, Jean Racine, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Henry Dana, Edward Everett Hale, Philip Sidney, John Dryden, Ernest Renan, Pierre Corneille, George Gordon Byron, Robert Burns, Bret Harte, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alphonse Daudet, Abraham Cowley, John Fletcher, Theodor Storm, Tacitus, William Penn, Ambroise Paré, Juan Valera, Francis Beaumont, Walter Raleigh, Michael Faraday, George Berkeley, Leigh Hunt, Simon Newcomb, James Russell Lowell, Philip Massinger, Giuseppe Mazzini, David Garrick, Charles W. Eliot, Louis Pasteur, William Henry Harrison, Hippocrates, William Harvey, Honoré Balzac, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Archibald Geikie, Richard Steele, Jean Froissart, Edgar Alan Poe, Francis Drake, Benvenuto Cellini, Francis Pretty, Thomas à Kempis, John Woolman, Joseph Lister, Alexander L. Kielland, William Roper, Philip Nichols, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, William A. Neilson, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky