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Christopher Marlowe 克里斯托佛·马洛 (1564-1593) Christopher Marlow(1564-1595)first great English Dramatist, poet the greatest playwright before Shakespeare one of the “University Wits”He is known for his use of blank verse and mysterious death.first made blank verse the principal medium of English drama. Marlowe’s Education Blank verseBlank verse refers to verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. It is a very popular verse form in English poetry. It was extensively employed in English poetry of the Renaissance. University wits大学才子派The?University Wits?were a group of late 16th century?English?playwrights?who were educated at the universities (Oxford?or?Cambridge) and who became playwrights and popular secular writers. Prominent members of this group were?Christopher Marlowe,?Robert Greene, and?Thomas Nashe?from?Cambridge, and?John Lyly,?Thomas Lodge,George Peele?from?Oxford. Representative works:Tamburlaine the Great (1587-1588)帖木儿大帝The Tragical history of Doctor Faustus (1589)浮士德博士的悲剧The Jew of Malta (1590)马耳他的犹太人Edward II (1592-1593）爱德华二世 Marlowe’s Poetry The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 激情牧人的情歌 Nature 大自然 Major worksdesire for powerdesire for knowledge and happiness desire for money Tamburlaine帖木儿大帝Genre: blank verse tragedyTheme: ambition for power through military forces.Significance: it voiced the supreme desire of the Renaissance for infinite power and authority. Doctor Faustusbased upon a German legend.The play’s dominant moral is human rather than religious.It is characteristic of a humanist in the age of Renaissance. Social significance of Marlowe’s plays1) Showing the spirit of the rising bourgeoisie:The eager curiosity for knowledge, towering pride, insatiable appetite for powerThe figures : typical images of the primitive accumulation of capital.2) The praise of the individuality and the boundless possibility of human effort His AchievementsMarlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the p