Was Christopher Marlowe a friend of Shakespeare?

Answer 1

How did Christopher know Shakespeare you ask? He knew him through the people of the town. There is no existing record of them meeting, but it seems unlikely that they wouldn't have crossed paths at some point. At the beginning of Shakespeare's career they both were writing for the same theatre, the Rose, and would have both been in the same social circles. They were rivals through the plays they wrote and acted.

Answer 2

Marlowe and Shakespeare were both playwright's in London in the late sixteenth century. Marlowe was one of the most popular playwrights when Shakespeare began his career in the theatre. They occasionally wrote for the same theatre companies. While any personal relationship between the two would be difficult to prove, it is unlikely that they weren't familiar with one another. They were certainly familiar with each other's works. Marlowe was a significant influence on Shakespeare and it is not out of the realm of possibility that there were collaborations, as they were very common at that time. There's no prove of their having worked together, however, and there are other writers that would have been more likely to have collaborated with Shakespeare.

Answer 3

Shakespear was a playwright, so he made up the story of Romeo and Juliet and wrote his famous play from the story. Well, actually he didn't make up the story. He took it from a poem called Romeus and Juliet by a man named Arthur Brooke.

Answer 4

Marlowe was a brilliant poet who greatly improved the lyrical quality of playwriting during his short life and brief career. He is considered by many to be the second greatest Elizabethan playwright after Shakespeare, so comparisons are natural

Answer 5

Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright. He was born in 1564, two months before Shakespeare. He was university educated, and began writing plays for the Theatrical Company the Lord Admiral's Men. He wrote the following plays: Tamburlaine, parts one and two, Doctor Faustus, The Massacre at Paris, Edward II, and the Jew of Malta. All of these are tragedies. Marlowe was unfortunately killed in a tavern brawl by some agents sent to arrest him at the extremely young age of 29 in 1593.

Although Marlowe and Shakespeare were of an age, there is no reason to think that they knew each other or worked together. Shakespeare was, however, a great admirer of Marlowe. Although tragedies in iambic pentameter had been written as early as Gorbuduc in 1561, Marlowe's mastery of poetic verse pushed the writing of tragic verse into a whole new dimension. Shakespeare acknowledged the debt he owed to Marlowe by occasionally quoting him or making allusions to his work.

Answer 6

Queen Elizabeth was queen when he was an active playwright, so she may have seen his plays.

Answer 7

Greatest dramatist until Shakespeare