The Artifacts Of Christopher Marlowe.
This is the only known example of Christopher Marlowe's signature.
It is taken from a will he witnessed for a neighbor when he was 21.
Above it has been computer enhanced to tidy it up.
Just look at the flowing beauty of it!
You can see the original below.
Christopher Marlowe's House.
Isn't this a perfectly fairytale house where a great genius could be born? I almost think I can see a little boy peeking out of the attic window at the incredible exciting world to be conquered.
This house in Canterbury, Kent, on the corner of St. George's Street and St.George's Lane is believed to be where the Marlowes lived for the early years of Christopher Marlowe's life. The house was destroyed in a German air raid in 1942.
Photo from The Marlowe Society
Christopher Marlowe's Portrait.
He has the penetrating intelligent eyes of a writer. He sees into people. He sees what's inside us.
This portrait was painted when he was 21, while Christopher Marlowe was a student at Cambridge University.
It is thought to have been commissioned by Marlowe himself and carries the date 1585.
It also carries what is thought to be his personal motto in Latin, created by Marlowe himself.
'Quod me nutrit me detruit' - 'What nurtures me, destroys me'.
Christopher Marlowe's Quotations:
There are many ugly quotations attributed to Christopher Marlowe, all of them extracted from his enemy acquaintances under torture, all of them hearsay, and none of them sounding in the slightest like anything which appears in the writing of Shakespeare-Marlowe. These quotations are taken from the historical records of the confessions which were used to make the legal case against Marlowe which was intended to send him to the gallows, and which resulted in his sudden fleeing from England into exile.
All of these quotations are shocking, deeply offensive, and deliberately designed by the Elizabethan religious authorities to be so. They do not have the subtle humanitarian sensibility of the man we know as Shakespeare, they are all crude and intellectually brutal. And not to be trusted. Not one of the supposed quotations is intelligent enough to actually be from Shakespeare-Marlowe. Not one of them resembles anything in any of the plays or poetry he wrote.
I'd recommend you ignore all of these falsified quotations, all of which were fabricated or extracted under torture, and concentrate instead on the hundred thousand beautiful lines we know he actually wrote in his Shakespeare plays and poetry. That's where you will find the real Christopher Marlowe, as a mature man who can plainly be seen to be a deeply humanitarian artist.
The Shakespeare-X Message.
Christopher Marlowe sent the world the Shakespeare-X Message to tell us he is the writer of the works of Shakespeare.
Christ Will I Am Shakespeare Over Marlowe
In conception it is a dazzlingly brilliant message, which we have been very slow in understanding.
Marlowe's genius still outshines us.
The Handwriting of Christopher Marlowe.
This is the probable handwriting of Christopher Marlowe.
It is a foul sheet from his play The Massacre at Paris.
It appears to be written by Shakespeare-Marlowe himself. The handwriting is a good idiosyncratic match when closely compared to the signature above.
At last we have the authentic handwriting of Shakespeare to admire. Probably.
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