ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Where was Christopher Marlowe educated? On January 14, 1579, Christopher Marlowe entered the King’s School, Canterbury, as a scholar. A year later he went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Marlowe obtained both a bachelor’s degree (1584) and a master’s degree (1587) at Cambridge.

Detailed explanation-2: -The university wits include Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe (all graduates of Cambridge), as well as Thomas Lodge and George Peele (both of Oxford). Another of the wits, though not university-trained, was Thomas Kyd.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1587 the university hesitated to award him his master’s degree because of a rumor that he had converted to Catholicism and gone to the English college at Rheims to prepare for the priesthood.

Detailed explanation-4: -Believed by many scholars to be Marlowe’s greatest success, Tamburlaine was the first English play written in blank verse and, with Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, is generally considered the beginning of the mature phase of the Elizabethan theatre.

Detailed explanation-5: –died May 30, 1593, Deptford, near London), British poet and playwright. The son of a Canterbury shoemaker, he earned a degree from Cambridge University. From 1587 he wrote plays for London theatres, starting with Tamburlaine the Great (published 1590), in which he established dramatic blank verse.