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
love romantic dream
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
earth fit burial
All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
fall dies
All live to die, and rise to fall.
life proud now-and-then
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.
love steadfast our-lives
Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
infinite riches wealth
As their wealth increaseth, so enclose / Infinite riches in a little room.
burn ugly
Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! / I'll burn my books!
draw miles pampered twenty
Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia! / What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?
birds falls rivers shallow sing whose
By shallow rivers to whose falls / Melodious birds sing madrigals.
fly india ocean
I'll have them fly to India for gold, / Ransack the ocean for orient pearl.
forth heaven immortal kisses-and-kissing lips soul suck sweet
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
forth heaven immortal lips soul suck sweet
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
immortal kiss kisses-and-kissing sweet
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss
art beauty clad evening fairer stars thou thousand
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars