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AGE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Today, we will be considering Shakespeare as he lived and worked in the age but before that we should also be doing a brief study of backgrounds to his age and to his work and this becomes necessary because, the shakes the industry today is so large that if you don't know the context within which he worked it is possible to read him in very different and maybe sometimes wrong ways as well. Renaissance England is known primarily for its drama and Shakespeare is of course a form of dramatist of his age. We will be looking at some of the contexts which are important and which record over and over again in his place once it is to do with ideas of order and authority. We will be looking at it in terms of kingship and politics as well as in terms of domestic city and the home we will also be looking briefly at the religious background to the age and then we will do a prior official sketch of William Shakespeare himself. Now, first of all when we...

Doctor Faustus                            -By Christopher Marlowe INTRODUCTION Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury in 1564, and he can be considered the first major Dramatist of the Elizabethan period. Christopher Marlowe was actually of very humble birth. He was born of a shoemaker family but, he was finally educated at the University of Cambridge and he went to think school in Canterbury. All of this education was made possible by several scholarships and the fact that he had a university education helped him to move upwards in the world. so, from being the son of a shoemaker he eventually of course moved in circles of educated people but also amidst royalty to a certain extent because he was said to have been a spy for Queen Elizabeth. However his education was also significant for other things not just for his social mobility because he was educated in Latin and Greek and because he had a u...