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
grace hell strive
Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?
heaven world hell
... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
heaven hell faustus
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
self limits hell
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
burn ugly
Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! / I'll burn my books!
dies
Live and die in Aristotle's works.
riches rooms littles
Infinite riches in a little room.
fall ocean soul
O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!
unhappy spirit unhappiness
Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.
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.
kings grief men
The griefs of private men are soon allayed, But not of kings.
cutting night blood
FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!
christian poverty wealth
Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.
wine water prize
Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.