Biography & Life
The city in England where Marlowe was born in 1564.
What is Canterbury?
Marlowe's famous scholar who traded his soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of absolute power and knowledge.
Who is Doctor Faustus?
The poetic form used by Marlowe consisting of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
What is Blank Verse?
The English monarch whom Marlowe allegedly served as a secret agent.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
The age at which Marlowe tragically died in a tavern brawl.
What is 29 years old?
Marlowe's first major stage success, featuring an unstoppable protagonist whose boundless hubris and political ambition set the template for the Marlovian Hero
What is "Tamburlaine the Great"?
The number of syllables found in a standard line of iambic pentameter.
What is 10 syllables?
The town near London where Marlowe was stabbed to death on May 30, 1593.
What is Deptford?
The university that threatened to withhold his Master of Arts degree until the Queen's Privy Council intervened.
What is Cambridge University?
The term used to describe Marlowe’s complex protagonists who are driven by extreme passion and overwhelming ambition (hubris).
What is the "Marlovian Hero"?
Ben Jonson's famous nickname for Marlowe's powerful and revolutionary poetic style.
What is "The Mighty Line"?
The fellow playwright who implicated Marlowe as a blasphemer and atheist under torture.
Who is Thomas Kyd?
he contemporary playwright who was born the same year as Marlowe (1564) and inherited his theatrical legacy.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Marlowe's play focused on the obsession with wealth and revenge in the Mediterranean.
What is "The Jew of Malta"?
he rhyming, predictable metric style that Marlowe mockingly rejected in the prologue of Tamburlaine.
What are "jigging veins"?
he lethal document written by informant Richard Baines detailing Marlowe's radical and heretical statements.
What is the "Baines Note"?