The name Christopher Marlowe is inextricably linked with a particular metrical manifestation, blank verse. Marlowe neither rediscovered it, nor introduced it into English poetry, and certainly did not invent it. What he did, however, was to perfect and establish this metre. The blank verse is a rhymeless iambic pentameter. Verse…
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
Caterina de' Medici (* 13 April 1519; † 5 January 1589) was the only child of Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici and Madeleine de la Tour d’Auvergne. Her mother was related to the Bourbons (Caterina’s maternal great-grandfather Jean de Bourbon was also the great-great-grandfather of her later son-in-law Henri de…
Catherine de Clèves, Duchess of Guise (* 1548, † 11 May 1633) was a direct cousin of Henri de Navarre on her mother’s side. Her first husband Antoine de Croÿ, Prince of Porcien, forced her, who was after all a godchild of Caterina de' Medici, to convert to Calvinism. After…
In Marlowe’s drama The Massacre at Paris, the Catholic League is mentioned several times. It was founded in Nancy in September 1584 under the leadership of the Duke of Guise. Their primary goal was to prevent the Huguenot Henri de Navarre from ascending to the throne. Besides Navarre, the only…
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
