ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which one of the following dramas attributed to Christopher Marlow is believed to have been his first?
A
The Jew of Malta
B
Dido, Queen of Carthage
C
Edward the Second
D
Tamburlaine the Great
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -First recorded performance between 1587 and 1593 by the Children of the Chapel, a company of boy actors in London. Significance This play is believed by many scholars to be the first play by Christopher Marlowe to be performed.

Detailed explanation-2: -of Christopher Marlowe. In the earliest of Marlowe’s plays, the two-part Tamburlaine the Great (c. 1587; published 1590), Marlowe’s characteristic “mighty line” (as Ben Jonson called it) established blank verse as the staple medium for later Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic writing.

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: -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: -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.

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