Literary similarities between Marlowe and Shakespeare

Introduction

Many readers, critics and biographers have noted the close similarity between the works of Marlowe and Shakespeare's poetry and plays. And on a deeper inspection there are striking similarities between the works of both writers, as contemporaries.

Literary influence

The literary influence of Marlowe on Shakespeare has been universally accepted. "In seven of his plays Shakespeare is clear, and perhaps deliberately copying Marlow and eleven other plays there are faint traces of Marlowe's influence and suggestions," said John Bakeless Tragicall in the history of Christopher Marlowe (Blumenfeld 360)."The exact relationship of these two principal figures is one of the major mysteries of literary history.

As it exists, that it was very far-reaching in its effects on Shakespeare, and through him to all the English letters ever since, there is no room for doubt." "He [Marlow] First of all, and he alone, guided Shakespeare into the right way of doing business..." Said the critic Algernon Charles Swinburne. "Marlowe is the greatest discoverer, the most daring pioneers in all our poetic literature. Before Marlowe no genuine blank verse and the real tragedy in our language.” After his arrival the way was prepared, the way straight to Shakespeare" (The Age of Shakespeare, Harper, 1908). Line and Verse

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe's "mighty line" revolution of the Elizabethan stage. Tamerlane, Doctor Faustus, Edward II, a Jew of Malta, Dido Queen of Carthage and the Massacre at Paris popular blank verse in late 1580 and early 1590's and set the standard for playwrights who followed. On purely stylistic reasons, nearly half of Shakespeare's works have been attributed in whole or in part in Marlowe critics who accept the death of Marlowe in 1593(Logan 251). Edmund Malone, the founder of modern studies of Shakespeare, Marlowe credited with Titus Andronicus, as William Hazlitt and FC Flay. Dyce, Alexander, founder of the Shakespeare Society in London, said: "There is a strong suspicion that [Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III] entirely from Marlowe”

Characters and Plot

A lot of characters in Marlovian and Shakespeare's works, which were cut from the same dramatic tissue, including Tamerlane, and Titus, Barabas and Shylock, Abigail and Jessica, the Duke of Guise, and Aaron, Edward II and Richard II, and Mortimer and Hotspur . According to researcher John Baker, Canon Marlo organically matures in Shakespeare, and his [Aeneas and] Dido is Romeo and Juliet "and then Antony and Cleopatra and Troilus and Cressida." Edward II matures in Richard II. Massacre at Paris is developing in Measure for Measure, "while a Jew of Malta in the metamorphosis of the Jew of Venice or The Merchant of Venice and Doctor Faustus is a doctor or Prospero's Tempest. Structure

The structure has also played in parallel. In comparison, Edward II Marlowe and Shakespeare, Richard II, Bakeless said: "Shakespeare's plays, like Marlowe, are a fiery dispute almost from the outset(Blumenfeld 360). In Richard II is between Bolingbroke and Mowbray, in Edward Second, between the king and his nobles. In each game, an argument is to bring the ...