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Christopher Marlowe: English Drama
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Something of this elegant love-banter continues in the earliest of Marlowe's dramas, "Dido and Aeneas." Not as admired as his later tragedies, it is nonetheless a kind of stately opera in prose (and one that occasionally recalls Purcell's musical masterpiece of the same title). Consider any of Dido's last pleading speeches before Aeneas abandons her to sail for Rome. The heroine's sentiments are universal, and echo modern Country-and-Western heartbreakers as much as Vergil:
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This makes it even less likely that Marlowe was murdered that night, because he was on his home turf, surrounded by friends and family. (See, "Visible Bullets," in Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture). (1999)
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In 1593, Marlowe's one-time room-mate and fellow dramatist, Thomas Kyd was imprisoned and interrogated after atheistic papers were found in his room. that is, that Christ did love him with an extraordinary love."
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