Compare/Contrast Shakespeare and Marlowe
Literary Essay
Compare/Contrast Shakespeare and Marlowe
William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe were both writers of the Elizabethan stage, living in the same town of London, at the same time, and they wrote plays while working with the same people. Their strongest similarity was in their work. They both had an innate ability to write about love, great tragedies, comedies, drama and poetry with a similar style called blank verse. Before Marlowe’s time, blank verse was not an accepted verse for drama, but he was able to substitute the regular stresses of earlier blank verses and created a more departed, sincere verse. Shakespeare later followed Marlowe’s example and was able to master the ordinary rhythm of this new style of blank verse. In order to learn more about the effects these two great writers had on English literature we need to examine each of their careers in greater detail, analyzing their lives and literary works.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and was understood to have attended the Kings New School and a grammar school where he learned Latin and literature. When he was the age of 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway and just six months after the marriage, they had a daughter, Susanna, and then around two years later they had twins, Hamnet and Judith. He became an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company. Most of his early works were comedies and histories and then mainly just tragedies. Towards the end of his work, he wrote mostly romances and assisted with other writers. He was well respected for his poetry and playwrights in the 19th century and in the 20th century, his poetry was rediscovered and his plays remain popular to the present day and repeatedly studied, learned, performed and reinterpreted throughout the world.
Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury. He attended The King’s school in Canterbury, and Corpus Christi College where he received a scholarship. He started writing before
Compare/Contrast Shakespeare and Marlowe
William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe were both writers of the Elizabethan stage, living in the same town of London, at the same time, and they wrote plays while working with the same people. Their strongest similarity was in their work. They both had an innate ability to write about love, great tragedies, comedies, drama and poetry with a similar style called blank verse. Before Marlowe’s time, blank verse was not an accepted verse for drama, but he was able to substitute the regular stresses of earlier blank verses and created a more departed, sincere verse. Shakespeare later followed Marlowe’s example and was able to master the ordinary rhythm of this new style of blank verse. In order to learn more about the effects these two great writers had on English literature we need to examine each of their careers in greater detail, analyzing their lives and literary works.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and was understood to have attended the Kings New School and a grammar school where he learned Latin and literature. When he was the age of 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway and just six months after the marriage, they had a daughter, Susanna, and then around two years later they had twins, Hamnet and Judith. He became an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company. Most of his early works were comedies and histories and then mainly just tragedies. Towards the end of his work, he wrote mostly romances and assisted with other writers. He was well respected for his poetry and playwrights in the 19th century and in the 20th century, his poetry was rediscovered and his plays remain popular to the present day and repeatedly studied, learned, performed and reinterpreted throughout the world.
Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury. He attended The King’s school in Canterbury, and Corpus Christi College where he received a scholarship. He started writing before