2007-03-27 03:55:10 · 4 answers · asked by The Cuckoo Ascending 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
At the time of his death he was due to be arrested for making sacrilegious, even atheistic remarks. These, as quoted, strike us as early adolescent today, but in the 1590s they were a serious matter that could lead to a death sentence.
Calvin Hoffman's book, The Murder of the Man Who Was Shakespeare, contains the only plausible theory in the huge Shakespeare-wasn't-Shakespeare library. It argues that Marlowe's death was faked so that he could flee to the continent, where he continued writing plays, using the actor Will Shakespeare as a front. I'm not endorsing this theory, but the style of Marlowe's last work is remarkably similar to Shakespeare's first.
2007-03-27 08:04:59 · answer #1 · answered by obelix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christopher Marlowe was an English Playright during the Elizabethan years. He is most famous for his English version of Doctor Faustus, a tragedy about a philosopher who makes a deal with the devil in return for knowledge, wealth, and power. In the end, he tries to escape from his fate, but is taken to hell anyway. Marlowe was most likely an atheist and possibly had homosexual tendencies. He was murdered in 1593, possibly the victim of an assassination.
2007-03-27 12:15:21 · answer #2 · answered by violingrl07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Playwright and poet - 1564 - 1593
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowe.htm
Pax - C.
2007-03-27 11:42:33 · answer #3 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was born in Canterbury and died in a bar fight.
He wrote words to the effect that "those who love not boys and tobacco are fools."
2007-03-27 14:15:09 · answer #4 · answered by Sairey G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋