Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth26 February 1564
dance men feet
My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
beauty ethics goodness
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
knaves fool knavery
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
women ambition ambitious
All women are ambitious naturallie
atheist ignorance thinking
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
divinity divine foul
Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.
kings grief men
The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.
sin deceiving everlasting
If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.
ships faces towers
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
justice steel quarrels
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
peace war firsts
Accurst be he that first invented war.
laughing fool earth
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
kings bravery triumph
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?
simple thinking atheism
Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.