Christopher marlowe biography powerpoint for elementary school
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The Tragical History of Christopher Marlowe February 1564-May 30, 1593
The Tragical History of Christopher Marlowe February 1564-May 30, 1593
Of “Common Stock” • Parents John and Katherine Marlowe • Father shoemaker • Canterbury, England • Scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University
Education & Religion • B. A. in 1584; M. A. in 1587 • Scholarships were with understanding that he would take holy orders in Anglican church • Cambridge battlefield for Calvinists and anti-Calvinists in 1580s; difference was damnation • Religious convictions? • Anglican? Catholic? Atheist?
Arrests for Fights & Religion • Arrested 1589, brawl resulted in homicide; poet Thomas Watson self-defense; both released • 1593 his roommate, dramatist Thomas Kyd arrested for inciting riots against Flemish Protestants; officers found papers denying deity of Christ; Kyd said they were Marlowe’s; Marlowe had to report daily to Privy Council--like house arrest
More on Marlowe’s “Reputation” • Kyd reported on Marlowe’s “monstrous opinions,” saying he would “gybe at praiers, & stryve in argument to frustrate & confute what hath byn spoke or wrytt by prophets & such holie men.” • Bains, a former fellow prisoner and possible informer, accused Marlowe of “D
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