Example sentences for: marlowe

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  • Since Tyrone Guthrie opened the festival in a tent in 1953, Shakespeare and other English classics such as Sheridan and Marlowe have been given pride of place.

  • Art historians employ a unit of beauty, the helen , derived from words addressed to Helen of Troy in the Marlowe play Dr. Faustus : "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burned the topless towers of Ilium?"

  • "Cheech & Chong bumbling about in Philip Marlowe's gumshoes," writes Rita Kempley of the Washington Post . The negative spin: Like other Coen films, this one is clever but rambling and undisciplined.

  • He writes that several years ago he tried to persuade Norman to devise a screenplay about Shakespeare's relationship with the homosexual playwright Christopher Marlowe, whose murder in a tavern in 1593 forms a subplot to Shakespeare in Love . Other scholars are gentler on the film.

  • The end was hastened by a man who made other Muslim invaders seem like pussy cats: the Mongol Timur the Lame, the “barbarous and bloody Tamburlaine,” later written about by Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.


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