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Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
Christopher Marlowe was an Elizabethan poet and Shakespeare's most important predecessor in English drama. He is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse
Select Texts:
- Tamburlaine the Great, 1590.
- The massacre at Paris: with the death of the Duke of Guise, 1594.
- The tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage, 1594.
- The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer, 1594.
- Hero and Leander, 1598.
- The tragicall history of D. Faustus, 1604.
- The famous tragedy of the rich Ievv of Malta, 1633.
