Hiroaki Sato translated "Basho's Narrow Road," "Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear A Hat" and writes frequently on Japanese poetry.
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Burgess's novel, "A Dead Man In Deptford", is a fictionalized account of the life of Christopher Marlowe.
Shakespeare was inspired by playwright Christopher Marlowe to employ blank verse as the formal meter of his drama. It was Marlowe who first mastered this verse form in the dramatic setting.
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Although the son of a poor shoemaker, Christopher Marlowe was such a gifted student that he won the privilege to attend the King's School, a celebrated educational institution for young boys that rarely granted admission to members of the working class. Marlowe's tuition was likely paid by a prominent member of the community, whom Marlowe later elegized. This was not the last of Marlowe's scholarships; his attendance at Cambridge, was likewise funded. He received his B.A. in 1584, continuing on more...
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02/26/1564 Canterbury, Southern England, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,
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one of the best classics ever !