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Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe. By: Alyssa Riley. His Life. February 26th, 1564 Education: King’s School, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Wrote plays for public in London Never married Secret agent?. His work. Less than six years Controversial themes; manuscripts were heavily edited

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Christopher Marlowe

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  1. Christopher Marlowe By: Alyssa Riley

  2. His Life • February 26th, 1564 • Education: King’s School, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College • Wrote plays for public in London • Never married • Secret agent?

  3. His work • Less than six years • Controversial themes; manuscripts were heavily edited • Heavily influenced Shakespeare • “violent sensational fiction” • BAD BOY of Elizabethan era • The Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus

  4. List of works • The Massacre at Paris • Dido, Queen of Carthage • Doctor Faustus • Edward II • The Jew of Malta • Tamburlaine

  5. Excerpt from Doctor Faustus • Earth, gape! O no, it will not harbor me. • You stars that reigned at my nativity, • Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, • Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist • Into the entrails of yon laboring cloud, • That when you vomit forth into the air • My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, • So that my soul may but ascend to heaven. • . . . • O God, if thou wilt not have mercy on my soul, • . . . • Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, • A hundred thousand, and at last be saved. • . . . • Cursed be the parents that engendered me: • No, Faustus, curse thy self, curse Lucifer, • That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven. • . . . • My God, my God, look not so fierce on me! • . . . • Ugly hell gape not! Come not, Lucifer! • I’ll burn my books—ah, Mephastophilis! • (13.57–113) • Ah Faustus, • Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, • And then thou must be damned perpetually. • . . . • The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, • The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. • O I’ll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down? • See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament! • One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah my Christ— • Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ; • Yet will I call on him—O spare me, Lucifer! • . . .

  6. His Death • May 30th, 1593 • Controversial

  7. Works Cited • Jokinen, Anniina. “Life of Christopher Marlowe.” Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature. N.A., 2010. Web. 30 Jan. 2014. • “Christopher Marlowe.biography.” Biography. A+E Television Networks, LLC, 2013. Web. 30 Jan. 2014. • “Editions of Marlowe’s Plays.” The Marlow Society. The Marlowe Soceity, 2014. Web. 10 Feb. 2014.

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