Pope Adrian VI was a character in Christopher Marlowe's theatre play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus ( published 1604 ).

* The A-text of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is officially published.

Shakespeare's plays about the lives of kings, such as Richard III and Henry V, belong to this category, as do Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and George Peele's Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First.

Queen Isabella appeared with a major role in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, and thereafter has been frequently used as a character in plays, books and films, often portrayed as beautiful but manipulative or wicked.

Over the course of the next three years, four plays with their name on the title page were published ; Christopher Marlowe's Edward II ( published in quarto in July 1593 ), and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus ( published in quarto in 1594 ), The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York ( published in octavo in 1595 ) and The Taming of a Shrew ( published in quarto in May, 1594 ).

In Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus ( 1604 ), Faust conjures the shade of Helen.

Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus exudes hubris, all the way until his final minutes of life.

Hylas is also mentioned in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II: " Not Hylas was more mourned for of Hercules / Than thou hast been of me since thy exile " ( Act I, Scene I, line 142-3 ), and in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 11.

Sergestus also appears as a minor character in Christopher Marlowe's play Dido, Queen of Carthage.

* Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, Edward II, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield ( 2001 )

* Machiavelli is featured as a character in the prologue of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.

It was alleged by medieval chroniclers that Edward II and Piers Gaveston were lovers, a rumour that was reinforced by later portrayals in fiction, such as Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II.

The portrayal of Gaveston as homosexual continued in fictional portrayals, such as Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II from the early 1590s, and the 1924 adaptation of that work by Bertolt Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger.

Although Richard III was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 20 October 1597, by the bookseller Andrew Wise, who published the first quarto ( Q1 ) later that year ( with printing done by Valentine Simmes ), Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, which cannot have been written much later than 1592 ( Marlowe died in 1593 ) is thought to have been influenced by it.

Christopher Marlowe's death is recorded in the sonnets.

A more tranquil mood is set by Christopher Marlowe's well known lines from The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:

* Christopher Marlowe-Hero and Leander ( completed by Chapman following Marlowe's death )

* May 14-The re-organized Admiral's Men begin performances with Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.

* The earliest edition of Christopher Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris is undated, but was most probably printed in 1594

He is also credited with the erotic poem The Choice of Valentines and his name appears on the title page of Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage, though there is uncertainty as to what Nashe's contribution was.

Her martyr-like death scene has been compared to that of the titular king in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II.

Also of interest are records of the purchase of expensive costumes and of stage properties, like the dragon in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, which provide insight into the staging of plays in the Elizabethan theatre.

Henslowe paid him for additions to Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus ; tradition, deferential to Marlowe, has assigned him the clown's bits in the 1616 edition.

It is also thought by scholars that the play was written to capitalise on the enormous success of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, which was first performed in 1596.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

The play The Reckoning of Kit and Little Boots by Nat Cassidy, examines the lives of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe and Caligula, with the fictional conceit that Marlowe was working on a play about Caligula around the time of his own murder.

In July 2010, Cronenberg completed production on A Dangerous Method, an adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure, starring Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, and frequent collaborator Viggo Mortensen.

His son Christopher Trumbo wrote a play based on his letters during the period of the blacklist, entitled Red, White and Blacklisted ( 2003 ), produced in New York in 2003.

In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted a Broadway play based on his father's letters called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal.

* Trumbo, a 2007 documentary by Peter Askin based on Christopher Trumbo's stage play

* Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1973 ), a play by the British playwright Christopher Bond.

Later performers to play Hamlet at the castle included Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Christopher Plummer, Derek Jacobi, and in 2009 Jude Law.

The relationship was later explored in a play by the 16th-century dramatist Christopher Marlowe.

In 2004, post-modern choreographer David Gordon created a dance-theatre version of the play called Dancing Henry Five, which mixed William Walton's music written for the Olivier film, recorded speeches from the film itself and by Christopher Plummer, and commentary written by Gordon.

Prior to the first act, an induction frames the play as a " kind of history " played in front of a befuddled drunkard named Christopher Sly who is tricked into believing that he is a lord.

Evidence of at least some initial societal discomfort with The Shrew is found in a contemporary alternative version that has Christopher Sly being " by his wife for dreaming here tonight " at the end of the play, suggesting that there was a market for an audience who were comfortable with the women ' winning '.

* William Marshal is also a key character in Christopher Morley's new play The King's Disposition.

An experimental video by Christopher Kondek and Elizabeth LeCompte showcases the production of the play by the New York – based performance troupe The Wooster Group, starring Kate Valk and Willem Dafoe.

Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play, Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

Christopher Hampton received critical acclaim for his screenplay, with Time Out writing that " one of the film's enormous strengths is scriptwriter Christopher Hampton's decision to go back to the novel, and save only the best from his play.

The play was directed by Christopher Morahan.

The story was popularised in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.