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Christopher Marlowe: William Shakespeare
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Marlowe was the kind of man who could not help making enemies. He seems to have lived, as he thought, dangerously. The history of Marlowe's remaining six years of his life traces a series of violent clashes with the law. By 1589 he was living in Norton Folgate, near the theaters, close to Thomas Watson, the poet. In Sep, Marlowe and William Bradley fell to fighting in Hog Lane, where upon Watson came to Marlowe's rescue. In the ensuring brawl Watson fatally stabbed Bradley.
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Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as Shakespeare, and was a product of the same social class. Unlike Shakespeare... Marlowe was university-educated. This solid foundation in the classics made him a talented translator and also informed his darkly hip poetry. Marlowe popularized a change in the way poetry was written, heavily influenced by Latin, and by the late 1580s his way of writing was the state of the art, to which almost all other writers aspired.
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THERE can be no question of the genius of Christopher Marlowe, nor of the far-reaching effect of his work on English drama. He dared disregard the classical unities in favor of a natural unity which comes from centering the action around one great character or great passion. He created an English drama in place of a slavish imitation of Greek and Latin dramas. He was, perhaps, the pioneer who blazed a trail for that still greater English dramatist born the same year, William Shakespeare.
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[W]here does that leave Christopher Marlowe? He is underestimated. The Shakespeare industry overshadows all other Elizabethan dramatists. This will soon be rectified. The Marlowe Society gained the support of literary figures such as Andrew Motion, Seamus Heaney and Stanley Wells to convince The Dean of Westminster, Wesley Carr, that Marlowe should have his memorial.
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At a local tavern in Deptford, England, Marlowe fell into a dispute over a bar bill with Ingraham Frizer, a man who worked for the Walsingham family, a patron of Marlowe. In the middle of the feud, Frizer stabbed Marlowe in the right eye, and Marlowe died instantly, on May 30, 1593. Marlowe’s death marks the preface for Shakespeare’s career.
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Like William Shakespeare, little is known about Christopher Marlowe’s life. Most of his life is recorded through legal records and documents. It is known that he was born on February 6th, 1564, to a shoemaker in Canterbury. He attended The King’s School in Canterbury, and Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. His first play, Dido, Queen of Carthage, is believed to have been written with Thomas Nashe while Marlowe was still attending Cambridge. His first play to be performed was Tamburlaine, in 1587.
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