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
draw miles pampered twenty
Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia! / What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?
scourge
For Tamburlaine, the scourge of God, must die.
infinite riches wealth
As their wealth increaseth, so enclose / Infinite riches in a little room.
immortal kiss kisses-and-kissing sweet
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss
fly india ocean
I'll have them fly to India for gold, / Ransack the ocean for orient pearl.
forth heaven immortal kisses-and-kissing lips soul suck sweet
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
forth heaven immortal lips soul suck sweet
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
bare cease hour midnight stand thou time
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live / And then thou must be damned perpetually! / Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,/ That time may cease and midnight never come.
burn ugly
Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! / I'll burn my books!
kings sunshine perfect
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
knaves fool knavery
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
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.