Talk:Rival Poet

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[edit] Christopher Marlowe

Marlowe is often seen as Shakespeare's foremost rival early in his career. I believe there is more evidence for this than is stated on this page. Marlowe might have had few plays before he died, but his plays were often considered more popular and more powerfully written than Shakespeare by Elizabethans for at least the first decade of Shakespeare's career. Marlowe's reputation was still great after his death. Also, his influences on Shakespeare's plays rings all through Shakespeare's career, with references to him in Love's Labours Lost, Hamlet, MacBeth, and even possibly the Tempest. This might indicate the two actally had been acquainted in some way and therefore he could have been a subject of rivalry in at least some of Shakespeare's sonnets.