Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — Marlowe. [ARTICLE]

Marlowe.

Do we not too much neglect Marlowe in our reading, of late years? going to Lamb’s selections rather than to the original works of the free souled Christopher ? Marlowe was the one poet of Sliakspeare’s time worthy to be named with him; and the greatest loss English literature has had in so young a poet until Keats and Shelby died in our own century. Like them he was under 30, having been born two months before Shakspeare (Feburary, 1504), graduated at Cambridge m 15»3, and began to write plays .so <n after he left the university. He was killed in a tavern brawl by Francis Archer in June, 1593, when in his 30th year, and before Shakspeare had written many of his plays. They were not schoolmates, for Marlow was born and educated at Canterbury before he went to college, while Shakspeare, who never went to college at all, pioked up what Lat n he had in a little school at Stratford, which ho may have attended, though we do not know that he did. But they met in London theaters, no doubt, in their hot youth. Boston letter in Springfield Bepbulican. Light-houses, from a theatrical point of view, always indicate breakers ahead.