Frank Kermode’s The Age of Shakespeare describes some background information regarding drama’s development in Renaissance.Kermode’s work helps to illustrate a fact that the reason of Drama’s flourishing development during Renaissance has a close relationship with the Reformation,the ruler’s support and a few innovations for dramas,which could be illustrated from Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Frank Kermode’s The Age of Shakespeare describes some background information regarding drama’s development in Renaissance. Kermode’s work helps to illustrate a fact that the reason of Drama’s flourishing development during Renaissance has a close relationship with the Reformation, the ruler’s support and a few innovations for dramas, which could be illustrated from Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.