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
play orators
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
atheism suspicion mischief
Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
fall pleasure faustus
He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
violence violent heard
Nothing violent, oft have I heard tell, can be permanent.
women ambition ambitious
All women are ambitious naturallie
atheist ignorance thinking
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
spring keys virtue
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
beauty ethics goodness
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
knaves fool knavery
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
dance men feet
My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
heaven hell faustus
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
self limits hell
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
war march strikes
Strike up the drum and march courageously.
running time feet
Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.