DRA 56B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hubris, Christopher Marlowe, Hylas
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More educated than nobility (scholarship, bachelors, masters) Learned to extemporize hexameter verse in latin. Disappeared while getting ma (spying for queen?) Days before death, baines testified he was atheist. They that not love boys and tobacco are fools . John the evangelist was bedfellow to christ and leaned always in his bosom . Killed at age 29 in fight over bar tab. Conspiracy theory: assassinated by queen"s secret service. Ex. of homosexuality in edward ii by elder mortimer. Didn"t matter until germany started labeling homosexuals (holocaust) Causes uneasiness bc distracts king & makes him go to parties. Did not take care of soldiers correctly (bad hospitals) Dick who wants to control the king (w/ parties) All live to die, rise to fall = ex. Act 5, scene 2; act 5, scene 6= ex. Fear"d am i more than lov"d, let me be fear"d/ and when i frown, make all the court look pale - mortimer act 5, scene 4.
