christopher marlowe as a great dramatist
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• NAME : Pandya Dharmishtha D.• CLASS : M.A.Part(sem-1)• Roll no. :28• Year :2015-16• Paper no.: 1(The Renaissance Literature)• Topic : Christopher Marlow as a great
dramatist• Email Id : [email protected]• Submitted : Dr.Dilip Barad
M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY
Christoper Marlowe (1564-1593)
He was born in Canterbury, only a few months before Shakespeare.
Marlowe is was an English playwright, poet and translator of Elizabethan era. Marlow was the fore most Elizabethan tragedian of his day.
So, lest have a look
1.Tamburlaine2.Doctor Faustus3.The Jew of Malta4.Edward II Lets us throw some
light on his work.
Christopher Marlowe's work are:
Tamburlaine is the story Timur the Tartar.Tamburlaine is an epic rather than a drama;
but one can understand its instant success with a people only half civilized, fond of military glory, and the instant adoption of its “mighty line” as the instrument of all dramatic expression.
Timur begins as a shepherd’s chief, who first rebels and then triumphs over the Persian king.
Timur rush like tempest over the whole east.He boast of his power which overrides all
things.
About - Tamburlain
About –Doctor Faustus Faustus the second play, is
one of the best of Marlowe's works.
It is known as his on of the remarkable work.
We can see an extraordinary personality of Doctor Faustus and that is his hunger for knowledge.
The story is that of a scholar who long for infinite knowledge, and law, the four jewels to tinsel and colored paper.
In order to learn magic he sells himself to the devil, on condition that he shall have 24 year of absolute power and knowledge. The play is a story of those 24 year.
About –The Jew of MaltaMarlowe’s third play is
‘The Jew of Malta’, a study of the lust for wealth, which center about Barabas, a terrible old money lender, strongly suggestive of shylock in ‘The merchant of Venice’.
The first part of the play is well constructed, showing a
decided advance bat the last part is an accumulation of melodramatic horrors.
Barabas is checked in his murderous career by Feeling
in to a boiling caldron which he had prepared for another, and dies blaspheming, his only regret bring that he has not done more evil in his life.
About –Edward IIMarlow’s last play is Edward II.
A tragic study of a king’s weakness and misery.
