FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Was an erudite playwright with courtly manners
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was an untrustworthy intriguer and a poet
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was a controversial, violent but talented man
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -They present the playwright as a controversial figure, with subversive views of religion and sexuality. The manuscripts include a famous note from the double agent and informer Richard Baines, making damning accusations that Marlowe was an ‘Atheist’ with too much love for ‘Tobacco & Boies [boys]’.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Marlowe and Shakespeare wrote both poetry and drama. Marlowe, however, wrote only five plays, all of which were histories and tragedies, while Shakespeare wrote comedies as well as historical and tragic plays.