Marlovian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Marlovian (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the English writer Christopher Marlowe (c.1564–1593).
- 1982 Winter, Larence Danson, “Christopher Marlowe: The Questioner”, in English Literary Renaissance, volume 12, number 1:
- Also it is worth attending to the Marlovian questions because they are too easily drowned out by another characteristic rhetorical device, the hyperboles so well analyzed by Harry Levin.
- Pertaining to the conspiracy theory that Christopher Marlowe was the main writer of works attributed to William Shakespeare.
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Noun[edit]
Marlovian (plural Marlovians)
- Someone who believes that Christopher Marlowe was the main writer of works attributed to William Shakespeare.