A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.

Bill Bryson

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Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

Anthony Burgess

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God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Tags: truth devil god eternity hell christian faust catholic demons lucifer marlowe creator christopher-marlowe hard-truths



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... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Tags: man planning plans mind mankind philosophical faust sad-but-true artifice marlowe imprison christopher-marlowe faustus faustian when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart grand-plans imprisionment



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Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

E.A. Bucchianeri

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(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you’re a sorry state of affairs.

Elizabeth Bear

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