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Christopher Marlowe: Cambridge University
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Marlowe was educated at Cambridge and was involved in difficulties there with the authorities with regard to the granting of his Master of Arts degree in 1587. It seems that Marlowe refused to take holy orders and that he was suspected of "converting" to Roman Catholicism. However, the government authorities intervened in Marlowe's behalf, and the degree was granted. Marlowe, at this time, undoubtedly was active in some form of government service.
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Born in Canterbury on February 6, 1564, the son of a shoemaker, Marlowe was educated at the University of Cambridge. Going to London, he associated himself with the Admiral's Men, a company of actors for whom he wrote most of his plays. He was reputedly a secret agent for the government and numbered some prominent men, including Sir Walter Raleigh, among his friends, but he led an adventurous and dissolute life and held unorthodox religious views. In 1593 he was denounced as a heretic; before any action could be taken against him, in May of that year he was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl at Deptford supposedly over payment of a dinner bill, though the circumstances of his death remain mysterious.
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Marlowe was born in Canterbury, southern England, in 1564, the son of a shoemaker. He studied theology at Cambridge University and was a successful dramatist. Yet he had a flamboyant reputation, was suspected of spying for the government in Europe, and accused of blasphemy for pointing out inconsistencies in the Bible.
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Marlowe is best known for his brilliant Doctor Faustus, the story of a university man (like Hamlet) who sold his soul to the devil. In both Doctor Faustus and the earlier, two-part play, Tamburlaine, Marlowe created what Ben Jonson called his "mighty line."
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At this point Marlowe disappeared from university, and later speculation was that he was recruited by the government for espionage work. When he returned to Cambridge, Marlowe was refused his M.A. degree due to suspected Catholic sympathies, until the Queen's Privy Council intervened on his behalf.
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There is no doubting Marlowe's involvement in the secret service of Queen Elizabeth's Protestant regime. Catholics were the enemy. Even while he was still a bright student at Cambridge, Marlowe was skipping lectures to infiltrate papist seminaries in Europe.
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