FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, a pastoral poem
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Hero and Leander, mythological poem about two ill-fated lovers
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The Flea
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The Merchant of Venice
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Detailed explanation-1: -”Hero and Leander” is an epyllion, a short epic poem, in which Hero and Leander are lovers separated by the Hellespont, a narrow strip of water between Sestos and Abydos, the towns in which Hero and Leander live. The lovers first meet at the yearly festival of Adonis, one of Venus’ lovers, and fall in love.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hero and Leander is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont, and Leander, a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait (“Hero and Leander”).
Detailed explanation-3: -Hero and Leander is a poem by Christopher Marlowe that retells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. After Marlowe’s untimely death it was completed by George Chapman. The minor poet Henry Petowe published an alternative completion to the poem. The poem was first published five years after Marlowe’s demise.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hero, virgin priestess of Aphrodite at Sestos, was seen at a festival by Leander of Abydos; they fell in love, and he swam the Hellespont at night to visit her, guided by a light from her tower. One stormy night the light was extinguished, and Leander was drowned; Hero, seeing his body, drowned herself likewise.