Play Flourishing in Elizabethan Era and a Review of...

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play written by Christopher Marlowe. Christopher Marlowe is an English playwright who lived and created during the rule of Elizabeth I. The whole period of her reign, from 1558 to 1603, is called Elizabethan age and is known for being the greatest period in the history of English literature, so as the golden age of English drama. Since the number of plays was growing, lots of theaters were opened and made art more available to average people. Historical events influenced plays and made Marlowe to ‘rebel’ against social order and Christianity through his play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Queen Elizabeth is a member of Tudor dynasty and was a queen of England and Ireland for almost forty-five years. She loved art and encouraged development of literature, which resulted with a play flourishing. Lots of playwrights were active back then, such as George Peele, Robert Greene, John Lyly, Anthony Munday, Thomas Kyd, and George Gascoigne, but the most famous and most important ones are William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. Since the population of city was growing, playwrights were having larger audience for their plays. Because of so many playwrights who wrote important plays and introduced new types of plays to people, for example, the first history plays were written, and who â€Å"gave to the Elizabethan drama some elements of classical form and contributed to the great outputting of literature in the 1590s’’ (â€Å"The