Christopher Marlowe as a great dramatist

1. • NAME : Pandya Dharmishtha D.
• CLASS : M.A.Part(sem-1)
• Roll no. :28
• Year :2015-16
• Paper no.: 1(The Renaissance Literature)
• Topic : Christopher Marlow as a great dramatist
• Email Id : pandyadharmishtha510@gmail.com
• Submitted : Dr.Dilip Barad

2.  He was born in
Canterbury, only a few
months before
Shakespeare.
 Marlowe is was an
English playwright, poet
and translator of
Elizabethan era. Marlow
was the fore most
Elizabethan tragedian of
his day.
 So, lest have a look

3. 1. Tamburlaine
2. Doctor Faustus
3. The Jew of Malta
4. Edward II
Lets us throw some light on
his work.

4.  Tamburlaine is the story Timur the Tartar.
 Tamburlaine is an epic rather than a drama; but
one can understand its instant success with a
people only half civilized, fond of military
glory, and the instant adoption of its “mighty
line” as the instrument of all dramatic
expression.
 Timur begins as a shepherd’s chief, who first
rebels and then triumphs over the Persian king.
 Timur rush like tempest over the whole east.
 He boast of his power which overrides all
things.

5.  Faustus the second play, is
one of the best of Marlowe's
works.
 It is known as his on of the
remarkable work.
 We can see an extraordinary
personality of Doctor Faustus
and that is his hunger for
knowledge.
 The story is that of a scholar
who long for infinite
knowledge, and law, the four
jewels to tinsel and colored
paper.

7.  Marlowe’s third play is ‘The
Jew of Malta’, a study of the
lust for wealth, which center
about Barabas, a terrible old
money lender, strongly
suggestive of shylock in ‘The
merchant of Venice’.
 The first part of the play is
well constructed, showing a
decided advance bat the last
part is an accumulation of
melodramatic horrors.

8.  Barabas is checked in his murderous career by Feeling
in to a boiling caldron which he had prepared for
another, and dies blaspheming, his only regret bring
that he has not done more evil in his life.

9. Marlow’s last
play is Edward
II.
A tragic study of
a king’s
weakness and
misery.