BS English (3) Classical Drama-Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
1. MARLOWE AS A DRAMATIST OR MARLOWE’S CONTRIBUTION TO RENAISSANCE DRAMA Marlowe is considered a revolutionary poet of Elizabethan drama. He is considered the product and "The Morning Star" of Renaissance. It was he who gave many new touches to the English drama. It was Marlowe who more than any other rescued English drama from old rut of morality and led it to the smooth road of success and greatness. As a young man of twenty-three, he made it clear and claimed to liberate the English drama from its past futility. First Major Quality: Breaking Conventions In Tamburlaine, he boldly asserts: "From jigging verses of rhyming mother wits, And such concepts of clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war." This shows that he made many reforms regarding the direction of versification and subject-matter. He announces that he will break the conventions in two important directions. Here 'High astounding terms' of Scythian's are c...