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An English poet and playwright from the 16th century. Marlowe was Shakespeare’s contemporary, and he is perhaps best known for his play, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus. In Nicholas Greene’s harsh critique of Elizabethan poets, he claims that Shakespeare’s scenes are stolen from Marlowe, who didn’t live to see 30 and was “killed in a drunken brawl.” Indeed, Marlowe was killed under rather mysterious circumstances. He was arrested in 1593 for vague charges of blasphemy, and just over a week later he was stabbed to death while drunk in a bar by an Englishman named Ingram Frizer. Like many of the other poets mentioned in Orlando, Woolf recognizes Marlowe’s talent, but she also portrays him as a regular person, and a bit of a troublemaker, about whom there is nothing exceptional.
Christopher Marlowe / Kit Marlowe Quotes in Orlando
The Orlando quotes below are all either spoken by Christopher Marlowe / Kit Marlowe or refer to Christopher Marlowe / Kit Marlowe. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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“Ah!” he said, heaving a little sigh, which was yet comfortable enough, “Ah! my dear lady, the great days of literature are over. Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson—those were the giants. Dryden, Pope, Addison—those were the heroes. All, all are dead now. And whom have they left us? Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle!”—he threw an immense amount of scorn into his voice. “The truth of it is,” he said, pouring himself a glass of wine, “that all our young writers are in the pay of booksellers. They turn out any trash that serves to pay their tailor’s bills. It is an age,” he said, helping himself to hors d’oeuvres, “marked by precious conceits and wild experiments—none of which the Elizabethans would have tolerated for an instant.”
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Christopher Marlowe / Kit Marlowe Quotes in Orlando
The Orlando quotes below are all either spoken by Christopher Marlowe / Kit Marlowe or refer to Christopher Marlowe / Kit Marlowe. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6
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“Ah!” he said, heaving a little sigh, which was yet comfortable enough, “Ah! my dear lady, the great days of literature are over. Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson—those were the giants. Dryden, Pope, Addison—those were the heroes. All, all are dead now. And whom have they left us? Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle!”—he threw an immense amount of scorn into his voice. “The truth of it is,” he said, pouring himself a glass of wine, “that all our young writers are in the pay of booksellers. They turn out any trash that serves to pay their tailor’s bills. It is an age,” he said, helping himself to hors d’oeuvres, “marked by precious conceits and wild experiments—none of which the Elizabethans would have tolerated for an instant.”
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