The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Summary

Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" fits perfectly into the poetic genre of the period. Poets of the Elizabethan age used poetry as a way to express their wit and talent. It is likely that Marlowe's poem would have been passed around among his friends long before its publication in 1599 in England, six years after the poet's death. Few Elizabethan poets published their own work, especially one as young as Marlowe...

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Christopher Marlowe Biographies (3)

Christopher Marlowe

837 words, approx. 3 pages

The English dramatist Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was the first English playwright to reveal the full potential of dramatic blank verse and the first to exploit the tragic implications of Renaissa... Read more

Christopher Marlowe

10,158 words, approx. 34 pages

The achievement of Christopher Marlowe, poet and dramatist, was enormous--surpassed only by that of his exact contemporary, Shakespeare. A few months the elder, Marlowe was usually the leader, althoug... Read more

Christopher Marlowe

10,357 words, approx. 35 pages

Biography EssayThe achievement of Christopher Marlowe, poet and dramatist, was enormous—surpassed only by that of his exact contemporary William Shakespeare. A few months the elder, Marlowe was ... Read more

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Comparison: the Nymph and the Shepherd

629 words, approx. 3 pages

The shepherd in Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and the nymph in "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Ralegh, have very differing ideas of love. Though bot... Read more

Marlowe Vs. Raleigh

753 words, approx. 3 pages

As one plays chess there are various strategies one can take; offensive, defensive or just plain suicide are all valid, yet different ways one can go about playing the game. Parallel is the way an au... Read more

A Discourse of Remours for the Amorous

1,445 words, approx. 5 pages

The great playwright Christopher Marlowe also wrote one of the most famous lyrical poems in British literature, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." In this pastoral portrait, Marlowe reveals the sh... Read more

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