Christopher Marlowe 剋裏斯托夫.馬洛（1564——1593）出生在坎特伯雷鞋商之傢。在劍橋期間，他開始致力於文學創作。他的劇作《帖木兒》就是他從劍橋畢業前完成的，一經演出便大獲成功。1584年，他來到倫敦，深受文藝復興思潮的影響，這在他的劇作《浮士德博士的悲劇》中有所體現。
馬洛是當時“大學才子”（即：莎士比亞之前英國人文主義戲劇傢的總稱）中最富才華的人。在他短暫的一生中，他完成了六部劇本的創作。其中最富有名的有《帖木兒》.（上捲與下捲1587-1588)"Tamburlaine,Parts I , II(1587-1588)《浮士德博士的悲劇》（1589？）"Dr.Faustus(1589?)《馬耳他島的猶太人》（1590？）"The Jew of Malta"(1590?)以及《愛德華二世》（1592-1593）"Edward II"(1592-1593)。除劇本外，馬洛還寫了《海洛與勒安德爾》"Hero and Leander"和《激情的牧人緻心愛的姑娘》"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"兩首詩，並翻譯了古羅馬詩人奧維德的《愛的藝術》(a verse translation of Ovid's Amores".
2 Tamburlaine 《帖木兒》(英文簡介）
Tamburlaine is a play about an ambitious and pitiless Tartar conqueror in the fourteeth century who rose from a shepherd to an overpowering king.By flouting the given order and trampling on despairing princes,Tamburlaine displayed a high-aspiring mind that was self-created and carried by love and dreams beyond the limits of moral existence.His victories were a triumph of immense natural energy and of ruthlessness over equally cruel but weak and decadent civilizations.By depicting a great hero with high ambition and sheer brutal force in conquering one enemy after another,Marlowe voiced the supreme desire of the man of the Renaissance for infinite power and authority.In fact,Tamburlaine is a product of Marlowe's characteristically Renaissance imagination,fascinated by the earthly magnificence available to men of imaginative power who have the energy of their convictions.（reproduction of material without witten permission is strictly prohibited.Contact me for permission to copy this article,Hope you can make comments on them,email exiven@163.com. The above is taken from “Selected Readings In English And American Literatures" Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press)
參考資料：《英美文學選讀》
Source“Selected Readings In English And American Literatures" Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
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