LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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“The Jew of Malta”
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“Doctor Faustus”
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“Edward II”
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -What did Christopher Marlowe write? Christopher Marlowe’s most famous play is The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. His other plays are Tamburlaine the Great; Dido, Queen of Carthage; Edward II; The Massacre at Paris; and The Jew of Malta.
Detailed explanation-2: -Christopher Marlowe was the confirmed author of six plays. They include Dido, Queen of Carthage, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, The Massacre at Paris, Doctor Faustus, and Tamburlaine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus: New Mermaids Christopher Marlowe Methuen Drama.
Detailed explanation-4: -Among the little available information we have, Dido is believed to be the first Marlowe play performed, while it was Tamburlaine that was first to be performed on a regular commercial stage in London in 1587.
Detailed explanation-5: -Despite the brevity of his career, Marlowe made an indelible mark on English literature. He is considered by many to have established blank verse as the preferred meter of Elizabethan and Jacobean writing, and he was also a major influence on William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year.