Christopher Marlowe

“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships”?

Doctor Faustus (5.1)

(About Helen of Troy)

To which school was he associated with?

The school of the night (liberal)

Lust after power?

Tamburlaine

First written play?

Dido, Queen of Carthage

Only historical play?

Edward II

(first play with undertones of homosexuality)

Marlovian Heroes characterised by

Ambiguous attitudes, Inner conflict, beyond morality & religion, obsessed with beauty of horror

Doctor Faustus is associated with which Christian doctrine?

Calvinism (predestination)

Characters of Touchstone, Golding & Quicksilver in

‘Eastward Ho!’

‘Eastward Ho!’ in collaboration with

Marston & Chapman

A satire on rising merchant class

‘Volpone’

Coleridge appreciated the plot as “perfect” in terms of fulfillment of classical unities

The Alchemist

Marlowe's Roman Tragedy

Sejanus the Fall

His followers are known as

Cavalier Poets

“Mighty Line” - Who gave the phrase?

Ben Jonson, in his preface to First Folio