Christopher Marlowe was the greatest of Shakespeare’s predecessors. He may be regarded as the true founder of English drama. Though he was born and brought up in very poor family.he was able to get good education. Marlowe was the greatest of a group of young writers generally called “ University wits” Before his untimely death at the age of twenty-nine he had founded English romantic tragedy, had written one of the greatest poetical dreams in the English language. One of the best psychological grandeur with doctor Faustus. For this great symbolic tragedy deals with a theme which is not only of the author’s inner experience but of the very stuff which nourished the renaissance spirit. The pride of intellect by which both the Faustus of Marlowe and the Lucifer of Milton feel was the subtlest and most dangerous temptation of the age.