ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The early modern English theater scene was fairly small and highly competitive. Playwrights like Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Edmund Spenser were friends, but also rivals. They collaborated, imitated, and satirized each other equally as they jostled for success.

Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare (1564-1616), a respected Elizabethan playwright and poet, was a contemporary of Christopher Marlowe. Scholars believe Marlowe and Shakespeare likely knew each other because the worked in same field and their plays were produced around the same time.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is to be credited by Oxford University Press as Shakespeare’s co-writer on three of the Bard’s plays. Marlowe has long been suspected in some quarters of having a hand in some of Shakespeare’s works.