A Short Life and a Huge Contribution to the Drama.
Biography of Christopher Marlowe.
Christopher Marlowe, a British playwright and poet, was born on 26 February 1564 in Canterbury in a family cobbler. He studied at the University of Cambridge. Some people believe that Royal Secret Service recruited him during this period of his life. Shoemaking not attract graduate of Cambridge cause his future was poetry. In 1584 he received a Bachelor of Art in art and went to London to seek his fortune. Before act as a playwright, he was an actor, but then he had broken his leg, and had to abandon the stage career. In London, Marlowe made the acquaintance with poets and playwrights and was quite close with Green, Chapman, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Thomas Nash, with whom he wrote the tragedy of Dido. In 1587 Marlowe in Cambridge received a Master of Arts, and made his first tragedy on the stage, Tamburlaine the Great (Honan).
In those days, the two directions of Dramatic Art dominated such as classical and folk. Marlowe chose the last one, in order to transform it. Until Marlowe, folk drama was alternating bloody events and clownish episodes in which clowns allows even improvise. In the prologue to Tamburlaine the Great, readers may notice the conscious intention of the author to pave new ways of acting, to interest the public image of the world-historical events, pictures of the fall of kingdoms and nations. In addition, Marlowe is the first who attempted to put action on the psychological basis to comprehend this inner motives. In the face of Tamburlaine, he showed the ambitious type, which burns because of an insatiable thirst of power. Marlowe followed the same psychological manner in his other works (LibriVox).
The most mature work of Marlowe is its dramatic chronicle Edward II, which was a model for Richard II, Shakespeare. Marlowe, in this work, was the same reformer, as in the other. Before Edward II, pieces about the nation’s history were, with very few exceptions, no more than chronicles performed in dialogue form. Marlowe’s pieces were different. He took to his work as a true artist. He kept the essence of events and showed the inner motives of characters. Marlowe turned dramatic chronicles to real historical dramas. Marlowe introduced poetic dimension that completely changed the dramatic diction. Replacement rhymes using blank verse was very important in the history of English drama too (Harcourt).
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