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Christopher Marlowe: Death
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Various versions of Marlowe's death were current at the time. Francis Meres says Marlowe was "stabbed to death by a bawdy serving-man, a rival of his in his lewd love" as punishment for his "epicurism and atheism".[11] In 1917, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Sidney Lee wrote that Marlowe was killed in a drunken fight, and this is still often stated as fact today.
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Marlowe lived between 1564 -1593. William Shakepeare lived between 1564 - 1616 and details of his life have only been scrutinised recently long after Marlows reported death in 1593. William Shakepeare is thought to have had a problem with one of his eyes.
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The facts only came to light in 1925 when the scholar Leslie Hotson discovered the coroner's report on Marlowe's death in the Public Record Office. Marlowe had spent all day in a house (
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