These lines come from John Madden's 1998 film Shakespeare in Love. Marlowe's touch was in my Titus Andronicus, and my Henry VI was a house built on his foundations … I would give all my plays to come for one of his that will never come. Let's begin by looking at the life and reputation of the play's author. We will discuss several aspects of the play, and engage in some of the main skills and techniques involved in the analysis and interpretation of literary texts. The main aim being to introduce you to the study of literature at undergraduate level. We will then look at Doctor Faustus, Marlowe's most well-known play. We will start by considering the literary reputation of Marlowe (1564–93), who lived and wrote at the same time as Shakespeare and is probably the most famous of his many gifted fellow writers. In this course I will discuss the question of reputation in relation to a literary text, Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, which was written sometime between 15 and was first published in 1604 (the A text). Used with permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Figure 1 Known as the Corpus Christi portrait, this is thought by some people to be a portrait of Marlowe (Corpus Christi was Marlowe's college at Cambridge), 1585, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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