Christopher Marlowe
c. 1564 CE–c. 1593 CE · Playwright · Canterbury
Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era, the son of a Canterbury shoemaker. Educated at the King's School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he wrote for the London stage from the late 1580s. His works include Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, The Massacre at Paris and Doctor Faustus, alongside the poem Hero and Leander and a translation of Ovid. He is credited with developing dramatic blank verse. Government records suggest involvement in state service. He died at Deptford in 1593 from a knife wound during a dispute at a lodging house, aged 29.
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