Christopher Marlowe Research Paper

Christopher Marlowe born in 1564, he was an english playwright, poet, translator of the elizabethan era. He was born to shoemaker John Marlowe. He was just two months older to his contemporary William Shakespeare. He was educated at King’s school Canterbury and at the Cambridge University. He was the foremost elizabethan tragedian of his day. Christopher Marlowe, he was the greatest dramatist of the medieval period. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was based on German Faustbuch. Marlowe’s career as a dramatist must have begun soon after his career as an actor. He wrote six magnificent plays, all reflecting his essential spirit and nature. All were full of passion and poetry. Marlowe’s play were also known for the use of the blank verse …show more content…
Marlowe deviates significantly by having his hero not to “burn his books” This was done so the masses could easily learn the basics of christianity through the dramatic spoken words. Personification was used in vices, stories of temptation, the devil, Virtues, good angel and was made accessible to those who could not read it themselves. The supernatural pervades Doctor Faustus, appearing everywhere in the story. Morality plays played a very important part at that time and were very successful. They are a type of allegory in which the protagonist is met by the personification of various moral attributes, trying to prompt him to choose a godly life over the life of an evil. The play is in blank verse. Morality plays show the difference between good and evil. The hero represents the Mankind.
The theme of the morality play is : Man begins in innocence after that he falls into temptation, man repents and he is either saved or killed. The main struggle of man against the seven deadly sins has been personified into real characters. Morality plays helped the audienceto understand the greater concepts of sin and