| MARLOWE | |
| Christopher Marlowe was
a young Cambridge dramatist. He had a wild life and a tragic death.Apart
from his writing career, he was also involved in political problems as a
spy and some of his ideas on philosophy and religion were considered
dangerous.
Marlowe wrote four tragedies from 1587 to 1593: "Tamburlaine the Great", "Dr. Faustus", "The Jew of Malta"and "Edward II". In the Tamburlaine there is the imaginative genius of Marlowe.Tamburlaine was a Tartar herdsman who possessed a lot of qualities. This tragedy is about cruelty and ambition. The quest of a material glory (goes against the conflicting)values of a christian world. In Dr. Faustus Marlowe writes about a German magician. He sold his soul to the devil, in order to have a universal knowledge. Dr. Faustus wasinterested in the inner, spiritual consequences of this quest. In Marlowe’s play this tragical history, Hellenist roman and Medieval traditions join together to dramatize the legend of Faustus. As in Everyman; the most successful English morality play, the human world meets strangely with the spiritual world: Psycology and allegory meet in the pact that Faustus makes with the Devil, and in the character of Mephistophilis the modern (psycology) and antique (allegorical) are perfectly blended to create an unforgettlabe dramatic character. The opening scene of the play is fantastic and the ending shows an incredible deoth of phatos that Marlowe never equalled. |
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