ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Christopher Marlowe was William Shakespeare’s senior by two months. One of the most striking figures of the English Renaissance and the true founder of the popular English drama, hence the father of English tragedy. Marlowe wrote four great tragedies and became a forerunner of Shakespeare.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marlowe is the first English playwright to realise that tragic action must be reflected in character . He also adds to the conception of tragedy . According to him, tragedy is a distress resulting from some overwhelming weakness of strength in the character himself. In Tambourine, the Great, it is the lust of power .

Detailed explanation-3: -Christopher Marlowe was an Elizabethan poet and William Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama. He is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse. In a playwriting career that spanned little more than six years, Marlowe’s achievements were diverse and splendid.

Detailed explanation-4: -Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (1564-1593) Scholars recognize Marlowe as the first English dramatist to reveal the full potential of blank verse poetry, and as one who made significant advances in the genre of English tragedy through keen examinations of Renaissance morality.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to the philosopher Flavius Philostratus, Aeschylus was known as the “Father of Tragedy.” Aeschylus’ two sons also achieved prominence as tragedians. One of them, Euphorion, won first prize in his own right in 431 bc over Sophocles and Euripides.