Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Marlowe was a famous play write back when Shakespeare was creating music and earning a reputation for himself. Shakespeare used a lot of phrases and quotes similar to those of Christopher Marlowe. For example “I ’m armed with more than complete steel,—The justice of my quarrel.”(Christopher Marlowe Lust’s Dominion. Act iii. Sc. 4)

Shakespeare had said in one of his plays “Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,And he but naked, though locked up in steel,Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.(William Shakespeare: Henry VI. act iii. sc. 2)

The similarities between the two are overwhelming, bits and pieces of Marlowe’s famous piece are intertwined in Shakespeare’s play Henry the fifth. Also in 1593 Marlowe died in a bar brawl were he was stabbed to death. Rumors where going around that Marlowe had worked as a spy for the Crown so a “staged death” would be an appropriate way of hiding any evidence of him being employed by the crown. Also with the added evidence of Shakespeare’s quotes having vary similar wording and meaning it is likely that Marlowe staged his death and wrote poetry under the alias of William Shakespeare.