Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature

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Christopher Marlowe was one of the greatest dramatists of 
his time. He was the first Elizabethan writer of tragedy.
Marlowe was born in Canterbury and studied at Cambridge. 
Bern in the same year as Shakespeare, he was killed in a brawl 
when he was only twenty-nine. If Shakespeare died at twenty- 
nine, his greatest plays would have remained unwritten, and we 
would scarcely know his name. Yet, Marlowe, by the time of his 
death had already established himseif as a powerful dramatist, 
earning the title “father of English tragedy”. He wrote the 
tragedies: “Dido, Queen of Carthage”, “Tamburlaine the Great”, 
“The Jew of Malta”. “The Tragical Hi stop,' of Dr. Faustus”, a 
chronicle history play “Edward 11”.
Marlowe’s literary activity lasted a few years, but he created 
an immortal place for himself in English drama and poetry. 
Marlowe established his theatrical reputation with “Tamburlaine 
the "Great” written about 1587. In this tragedy Marlowe wrote 
about the great conqueror, Tamburlaine.
In “Tamberlaine the Great” the author tells how a Scythian

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shepherd rises from his lowly birth, and by the power o f his 
personality becomes conqueror of the world. Elizabethan 
spectators found a keen pleasure in watching a brave bu 
t 
ruthless 
hero struggle against titanic forces on his way to the success. 
The story o f Tamburlaine seemed to them an idealization of the 
lives of adventurers.
As we know, an outstanding feature of Renaissance ideology 
was the belief in man, himself the master and creator of his destiny. 
Marlowe’s tragedies portray heroes who passionately seek power
- the power of absolute rule (Tamburlaine), the power of money 
(Barabas, the Jew of Malta), the power of knowledge (Faustus). 
Marlowe delights in the might and the strong will of his heroes.
Marlowe’s major achievement lay in adapting blank verse to 
the stage. Ben Jonson expressed admiration when he referred to 
“Marlowe’s mighty line”. Marlowe’s ability to com press thought, 
image and idea into superb lines of blank verse paved ths way for 
Shakespeare and later practitioners of the art.
In addition to his plays, Marlowe wrote one of the most famous 
of Elizabethan lyric poems, ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His 
Love.” This