Hero and Leander
Author: first_name: George
last_name: Chapman
first_name: Christopher
last_name: Marlowe
Language: English
Year: 1593

“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”<br/><br/>
The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague broke out in London, forcing the closure of the theatres. Leading playwrights took to penning languorously erotic poetry to make ends meet: so we have Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece - and Marlowe’s blazing masterpiece, Hero and Leander.<br/><br/>
Marlowe’s poem became more notorious than either of Shakespeare’s, due not only to its homophi