Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival: Without Christopher Marlowe, there might not have been a Bard. - 3 Quarks Daily

Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival: Without Christopher Marlowe, there might not have been a Bard. - 3 Quarks Daily

Nina Pasquini in Harvrad Magazine: He was a radical, the inventor of blank verse, a master of internal monologue, and a victim of murder. This was the English playwright Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary and rival of William Shakespeare—and perhaps the Bard’s key creative influence. At 14, young Marlowe—the son of a poor Canterbury cobbler—won a scholarship to the prestigious King’s School, becoming the first in his family to receive a formal …