Marlovian

American  

[mahr-loh-vee-uhn] / mɑrˈloʊ vi ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Christopher Marlowe or his writings, especially his plays.

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Etymology

Origin of Marlovian

1585–95; Marlowe (Latinization with -v- substitution) + -ian

Example Sentences

The Marlovian model, as Taylor sees it, asks us to examine the role of literature in politics.

From The New Yorker

But it’s hard when you’re approaching 30 and building a company and traveling all over the world and doing TV and all the other stuff people say you get your degree to be in with a chance of achieving to pull the plug and go back to writing essays about representations of addiction in Marlovian anti-heroes.

From Forbes

But they ought to be remembered for the Marlovian dismissiveness with which he explained why he had canned an investigation into .

From The Guardian

As Tamburlaine sweeps on, nothing interrupts his conquests and cruelties but his Marlovian sense of physical beauty and his feeling for Zenocrate, the captive princess whom he loved and lost: Now walk the angels on the walls of heaven, As sentinels to warn th' immortal souls To entertain divine Zenocrate; Apollo, Cynthia, and the ceaseless lamps That gently look'd upon this loathsome earth, Shine downwards now no more, but deck the heavens To entertain divine Zenocrate.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition to the couplet, a common mark of Marlovian influence in the poems is the etiological myth, sometimes expanded into a tale.

From Project Gutenberg