His legacy remains intact: in a short number of years he produced plays of lasting impact, influencing and inspiring both Shakespeare in the seventeenth century and Goethe in the eighteenth and nineteenth. One of Marlowe's plays, Edward the Second, in which the poet and dramatist telescoped time and altered historical events to better show their causal relationships, was made into an experimental film by British director Derek Jarman in 1991.
MoliFre (1622-1673), one of the greatest of all French writers, was a dramatist, stage director, and actor. As head of an acting troupe which toured the French provinces for thirteen largely unchronicled years, MoliFre gained a rigorous apprenticeship to his later work as actor-manager. His self-reliance later became apparent in his dealings with authors, colleagues, audiences, and authorities.
MoliFre was in trouble with the French authorities for much of his life. His play Tartuffe (The Hypocrite, 1664) was an attack on the self-appointed righteous leaders of his day:
In his attack on the hypocrite who hides in the clo
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