Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth26 February 1564
stars astrology influence
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
peace war firsts
Accurst be he that first invented war.
book oysters envy
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!
book envy wish
I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
ships faces towers
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
sweet perfect fruition
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
justice steel quarrels
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
mother rhyming veins
Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
divinity divine foul
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
war blood rich
Blood is the god of war's rich livery.
running stars moving
The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike
simple thinking atheism
Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.
lying hate fate
It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.
heaven world hell
... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.