Christopher Marlowe
University wits
Important plays: Tambulaine, Dr.Faustus, The Jewof Meta Edmund II
Marlowe voiced the supreme desire of the man of the Renaissance of infinite powers and authority
(1) Perfected the blank verse.
(2) Creation of the Renaissance hero to English drama ,it embodies Marlowe’s ideal of human dignity and capacity.
Dr.Faustus: aspiring for knowledge, the play’s dominant moral is human rather than religious, it celebrates the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness , it also reveals man’s frustration in realizing the high aspiration in a hostile moral order and the confinement to time is the cruelest fact of man’s condition.
A.作者创作分类:
a. The plays: (6 plays)Among them the most important are :
Tamburlaine, Parts I&II , Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II.
b. The non-dramatic poetry:
Hero and Leander, “the Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
c. The verse translation:
Ovid’s Amores.
B.代表作品:
a. Tamburlaine: Marlowe voiced the supreme desire of the man of the Renaissance for infinite power and authority.
b. Dr. Faustus: It celebrates the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness.
C.文学艺术成就:
a.文体与风格Marlowe perfected the blank verse and brought vitality and grandeur into the blank verse with his “mighty lines.” Hyperbole is his major figure of speech
b.人物塑造 Marlowe’s second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama. Such a hero is always individualistic and full of ambition,