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
die kiss kissing lord
Yet let me kiss my lord before I die, / And let me die with kissing of my lord.
draw miles pampered twenty
Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia! / What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?
scourge
For Tamburlaine, the scourge of God, must die.