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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

> FAUSTUS: Lucifer and Mephistophilis. Ah, gentlemen! I gave them my soul for my cunning!
> ALL: God forbid!
> FAUSTUS: God forbade it, indeed; but Faustus hath done it.

**Christopher "Kit" Marlowe** (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
_The Tragicall […]

Discussing: Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (Production Preview) New Production coming up of Edward II

🚨There is an upcoming production of Edward II by Christopher Marlowe coming to the Brockley Jack next week - here's a little production preview with the creatives behind the show. #drama #theatre #live #Marlowe #ChristopherMarlowe audioboom.com/posts/887957...

Post by @joegualtieri-blog 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Ticking Away · Back in September, I apologized for an absence of two weeks, and now I have been gone for almost three months. Well, it has been three very full months between life…

I celebrated my birthday by finally finishing my first blog post since October. It contains short reviews of Corey Doctrow's #Ragtime, Stephen Greenblatt's Dark Renaissance (critical #ChristopherMarlowe biography), and Chloe Zao's #Hamnet

#OTD
26th February 1564
Christopher Marlowe, poet and playwright was baptised at St George’s Canterbury.
He was the son of John Marlowe & his wife, Katherine Arthur.

#ChristopherMarlowe #KitMarlowe #Poet #Playwright #Tamburlaine #ThePassionateShepherdToHisLove #Tudors #History

Wenceslas of Bohemia (1361), #ChristopherMarlowe (baptized) (1564), Victor Hugo (1802), Honoré Daumier (1808), Nathan Kelley (1808), Levi Strauss (1829), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Ariel Sharon (1928), Johnny Cash (1932), Helen Clark (1950) & Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954) were born #OnThisDay...

"I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance." - #ChristopherMarlowe (born: 23 February 1564)

I just finished this book, my favorite kind of biography: a life and times. However, so little is known about Christopher Marlowe's life that it really is more a times with a fair amount of speculation about the life. Still, a great read. #ChristopherMarlowe #ElisabethanEngland #Shakespeare

A screenshot of the AP website with the headline “ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital”

This tells me someone in ICE has read Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great. I have trouble believing this happened in reality, but it sure does in that play.

#ICE #ChristopherMarlowe #lies #elizabethandrama

“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,
And now and then stab as occasion serves.”
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EdwardII
#EarlyModernMonday

📸Our 2018 production, photograph by #AdamTrigg

By then, #flagellation had became a form of kinky sex. #ChristopherMarlowe (d1593) described it done in a #brothel:
“When Francis comes to solace with his whore,
He sends for rods and strips himself stark naked
For his lust sleeps, and will not rise before

2025 challenge: one #book a day.

Day 315: #TheCompletePlays by #ChristopherMarlowe (edited by #JohnBarrySteane)

Not much to add here: everybody knows Marlowe’s #plays.

Yes, maybe #DoctorFaustus and #TheJewOfMalta are the most famous ones, but #reading all and appreciating their range is #awesome.

Dr. Faustus Story in Hindi | Introduction and Summary of C. Marlowe | U.S. English Academy

#DoctorFaustus #ChristopherMarlowe #EnglishLiterature #ElizabethanTragedy #LiteratureSummary #FaustStory

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Dr. Faustus Story in Hindi | Introduction and Summary of C. Marlowe | U.S. English Academy

#DoctorFaustus #ChristopherMarlowe #EnglishLiterature #ElizabethanTragedy #LiteratureSummary #FaustStory

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The book Doctor Faustus resting on a laptop, next to a stack of books.

If anyone’s wondering, this is my #Halloween season reading. #currentlyreading #christophermarlowe #doctorfaustus

Live fast, die young, inspire Shakespeare — Harvard Gazette In "Dark Renaissance," Stephen Greenblatt finds a tragic strain in the life and work of Christopher Marlowe.

🎭 Live fast, die young, inspire #Shakespeare

#Interview: #StephenGreenblatt finds a tragic strain in the life and work of #ChristopherMarlowe

#Poetry #Theatre #Literature #History

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Book cover of Stephen Greenblatt's dark Renaissance

Here we go, kids! #booktok #earlymodern #christophermarlowe #marlowe

Early modern autofiction? In his Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare (2004), Stephen Greenblatt cites Nicholas Rowe’s anecdote (first published in 1709) about the

#Book #Review by Emma Smith

Dark Renaissance
The dangerous times and fatal genius of #Shakespeare’s greatest rival, #ChristopherMarlowe
352pp. Bodley Head. £25.
#StephenGreenblatt

#Theatre #Literature

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A quotation from **Kit Marlowe**

> MYCETES: Accurst be he that first invented war!

**Christopher "Kit" Marlowe** (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
_Tamburlaine the Great_ , Part 1, Act 2, sc. 4 (1586-1587)

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More info about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

#quote […]

The Playwright Who Sparked the English Renaissance? Hint: Not Shakespeare.

The Playwright Who Sparked the English Renaissance? Hint: Not Shakespeare. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...
“For the cultural life of England to move forward,” Greenblatt writes, “someone had to come along and break through the suffocating carapace of inherited dogma.”
#ChristopherMarlowe

My Video Chat with the brilliant Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt about his new book on the Renaissance bad boy, Christopher Marlowe, without whom there might not have been a Shakespeare Marlowe is one of literature’s most transgressive figures.

Excellent interview @tinabrownlm.bsky.social had with Stephen Greenblatt on his new book about #ChristopherMarlowe.
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The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it’s time to read him and honour him | Editorial Editorial: England’s second most famous playwright is the star of a new play. But his own works should be staged more, and he should be commemorated better

Wrote some quite intoxicating verse #ChristopherMarlowe #MoreMarlowe

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I mean to be a terror to the world
(Tamburlaine, Act 1 Scene 2)

#Tamburlaine
#ChristopherMarlowe
#EarlyModernMonday

📸Prince Plockey as Tamburlaine taken by #AdamTrigg 2015

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A quotation from **Christopher Marlowe**

> CHORUS: From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits,
> And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,
> We’ll lead you to the stately tent of war,
> Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine
> Threatening the world with high astounding terms,
> And […]

We missed #ShakespeareSunday so here's #EarlyModernMonday...

“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
#DoctorFaustus
#ChristopherMarlowe

📸our 2022 Company of Doctor Faustus taken by #CharlieFlint

Make me immortal with a kiss

#ChristopherMarlowe

Helen and Paris

#RichardWestall

DAY 168: CONJURATIONS

#365days365doodles #doctorfaustus #mephistopheles #christophermarlowe #classicstageplay #art #sketch

A carved grey gravestone marker that reads in part "Near this spot lie the mortal remains of Christopher Marlowe," sited on a wall.

#ChristopherMarlowe never, ever shut up and I can't think of a better quality for a writer to have. #deadmanindeptford #christopherwild

📝 On this day in 1593: Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright, dies after getting into a fight in a tavern. 

📷 Photo of Christopher Marlowe's memorial by Ethan Doyle White. 

#ChristopherMarlowe #Poet #Playwright #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #History #England

"I count religion but a childish toy,/ And hold there is no sin but ignorance." - #ChristopherMarlowe (died: 30 May 1593)

#OTD
30th May 1593
Christopher (Kit) Marlowe, playwright and poet, was stabbed to death at a house in Depford Strand, London.

#ChristopherMarlowe #KitMarlowe #Playwright #Poet #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History