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Christopher Marlowe: An Elizabethan Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe, an Elizabethan dramatist, was a wonderful poet of pastoral poetry and using carpe diem themes. He has written many poems, however, three poems in particular, have similar themes. These poems are, "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love", "The Face That Launch'd A Thousand Ships", and "Who Ever Loved That Loved Not At First Sight?" All of these poems share two things in common, Christopher Marlowe, and their pastoral and carpe diem themes.
Marlowe was born in 1564 to a shoemaker in Canterbury. Before a long life of writing, he became a spy after going to college at Cambridge University. While becoming a spy, he was sent to jail after a street fight. Excitement and danger was a big part of his life. Another occurrence with the law happened when a fellow dramatist poet, and roommate Thomas Kyd, accused him of making scandalous speeches, and Marlowe was arrested again. At a tavern brawl over who was going to pay for......

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