Christopher Marlowe , Spitzname „Kit“, war ein englischer Dichter, Dramatiker und Übersetzer des elisabethanischen Zeitalters.
Die Kenntnisse über Christopher Marlowes Persönlichkeit und Leben sind äußerst spärlich und lückenhaft. Sie sind überwiegend aus indirekten, sehr unterschiedlichen Quellen, Aufzeichnungen, Zeugnissen und Fundstücken im Laufe von Jahrhunderten „mosaikstückhaft“ rekonstruiert worden.
Zu Christopher Marlowes Lebzeiten gab es eine primär phonetisch orientierte Schreibweise, so dass man den Namen Marlowe sehr unterschiedlich buchstabiert vorfindet, u. a. als Malyn, Marlar, Marley, Marlen, Marle, Marlin, Marly, Marlye, Marlyn, Marlo, Marlow, Merling, Merlin, Merley, Morley, Morleyn. Bei verschiedenen Quellen mit unterschiedlich buchstabierten Namen wird zum Teil kontrovers darüber diskutiert, ob es sich eindeutig um Christopher Marlowe gehandelt hat.
„An Macht und Ehr'! Ei wohl, mein soll die Herrschaft Emden werden!“
Die tragische Geschichte des Dr. Faustus / Faustus
("Of wealth! // Why, the signory of Emden shall be mine // When Mephastophilis shall stand by me." - http://books.google.de/books?id=oyCiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT476
Christopher Marlowe: Komm, leb mit mir (orig,: "Come live with Me"), in: Komm leb mit mir, Silva-Verlag Iserlohn, 1947, S.7
(original englisch): "Come live with me, and be my Love, // And we will all the pleasure prove // That hills and valley, dale and field, // And all the craggy mountains yield." - The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. http://www.bartleby.com/106/5.html
“Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove”
Barabas, Act II, scene iii. Marlowe is referencing Jesus, "Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves," in Matthew 10:16.
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
Kontext: Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.
“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
Aeneas, Act I, scene i, line 149
Dido (c. 1586)
“Thou hast committed—
Fornication: but that was in another country;
And besides, the wench is dead.”
Friar Barnardine and Barabas, Act IV, scene i
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
“Love me little, love me long.”
Ithamore, Act IV. Quoting John Heywood, "Love me litle, love me long," in Proverbes (c. 1538), Part ii, Chapter ii.
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
Barabas, Act I, scene i. Paraphrasing John Heywood, "Here lyeth muche rychnesse in lytell space," in The Foure PP https://books.google.com/books?id=LbkVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source#v=onepage&q&f=false (c. 1530).
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589)
“Hell is just a frame of mind.”
Quelle: Dr. Faustus
“He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.”
Evil Angel, Act V, scene iv
Quelle: Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
Quelle: Doctor Faustus
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
First Sestiad. The same statement occurs in As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare, and a similar one in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (1596) by George Chapman.
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
Variante: Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?
Mephistopheles, Act II, scene i, line 118
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Quelle: Dr. Faustus
“Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove”
Quelle: The Complete Plays and Poems
Faustus, Act V, scene i, lines 91–93
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Quelle: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
“What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?”
Quelle: Dr. Faustus
“The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike”
Quelle: Dr. Faustus
Quelle: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
“What should a priest do with so fair a house?
A prison may best beseem his holiness.”
Gaveston, Act I, scene i, lines 204–205
Edward II (c. 1592)
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (unknown date), stanzas 1 and 2. Compare: "To shallow rivers, to whose falls / Melodious birds sings madrigals; / There will we make our peds of roses, / And a thousand fragrant posies", William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii. scene i. (Sung by Evans.)
