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Marlowe

[ US /ˈmɑɹˌɫoʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)
  2. tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler

How To Use Marlowe In A Sentence

  • Marlowe and Shakespeare dominated late Elizabethan drama, although they did not monopolize it.
  • At Dulwich is a painting, Hero and Leandro for Christopher Marlowe, that is a white misty spume of oceanic spray assailed by a bloody smear of red. Cy Twombly - an appreciation: Paintings about sex and death
  • The play opens at the Hardcastle home - and the lazy, rural state of affairs it harbours - where Kate is soon to meet her unknown intended, Marlowe.
  • Shakespeare was the son of a Stratford glover, while the ‘aristocratic’ Marlowe father was was a very humble cobbler in Cambridge, whose university his child attended on a scholarship.
  • Marlowe: Uh - huh. I usually get away with it too.
  • Kyd has left nothing, and Peele little, but drama; while beautiful as Marlowe's _Hero and Leander_ is, I do not quite understand how any one can prefer it to the faultier but far more original dramas of its author. A History of Elizabethan Literature
  • Marlowe s Edward II is a history play which is concatenated sexuality and politics to portray Edward II s tragedy.
  • The impiousness of the fishwife's final ambition links her with Marlowe's Faustus as well as with Lady Macbeth.
  • All players had to be competent dancers and singers, but dramatists like Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson replaced earlier short, rhymed verse with poetic drama.
  • When that fails, Marlowe is held hostage at Amthor's "sanitarium," a front for his blackmailing ring, and drugged with a truth serum to get him to talk. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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