Marloweshakespeare.info
- Title
- The International Marlowe-Shakespeare Society
- Meta Description
- Our Belief is that Christopher Marlowe - in his day England's greatest playwright - did not die in 1593 but survived to write most of what is now assumed to be the work of William Shakespeare.
- Meta Keywords
- Christopher Marlowe, universally recognized as the greatest English poet/dramatist before Shakespeare, was born the eldest son of a Canterbury cobbler. His precocious talent was recognized at an early age, however, and he was accepted on scholarships first by the prestigious King's School Canterbury and then Corpus Christi college in Cambridge as one of its elite Parker scholars There, Marlowe started the two activities which he would follow for the rest of his life: writing verse and working as a secret agent for the government. The verse was in the form of translations from the classics, including some of Ovid's more erotic works, lyric poetry, and plays in blank verse of a quality never seen before on the English stage.His work as a government agent nearly cost him his M.A. degree, since he let it be believed that he was planning to join the English College in Rheims, where Roman Catholics were trained and ordained as Catholic priests with the aim of returning to England as ...