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Christopher Marlowe was born on 6 February 1564, the eldest son of a shoemaker. At 23, he went off to London and became the dramatist for the theatre company owned by Lords Admiral and Strange. Christopher had several outside hobbies, like talking to his friend Sir Walter Raleigh, being an atheist, and getting arrested for an 'unspecified' offense.
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In London, Marlowe made important friends, including Sir Walter Raleigh, the famed English writer, poet and explorer, who had started the first colony in Virginia. Aged 25, Marlowe was imprisoned after a brawl in which a man was killed. He was involved in other street fights in between years, until in 1593, at 29, he was murdered in a dockside tavern. The official story released was that he had been stabbed in the eye during an argument over the bill, but a week earlier a warrant had been issued for Marlowe's arrest, and his former roommate, Tomas Hyd, had been tortured to make him give information about Marlowe.
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Early in Queen Elizabeth's reign there was an Edward Marlowe of some local importance residing at Clifton, Bristol, who got into trouble for taking unlawful possession of a salt-laden vessel belonging to Denmark, a country with which England was at peace. John Marlowe, of Merton College, Oxford, who died in 1543, was thought to have been a scion of the Kentish Marlowes. He became treasurer of Wells Cathedral and canon of the King's Chapel of St. Stephen within the palace of Westminster, and was evidently a person of some importance in his days. Anthony Marlowe, of whom more hereafter, was a wealthy and influential Deptford merchant, and probably a connection of the Canterbury Marlowes. Captain Edmund Marlowe, who lived till 1615, is mentioned in Purchas's Pilgrims as 'an excellent man, and well skilled in the mathematics and the art of navigation,' and may have belonged to Kent. In 1571 a Richard Marlow was master of the Grammar School of St. Olave's Parish, Southwark, London, and about twenty years later a Thomas Marlow was living in the neighbouring parish of St. George in the same borough, and was assessed on property of some considerable value.
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Swinburne's characterization of Marlowe is most revealing: "He came to London to seek his fortune . . . a boy in years, a man in genius, a god in ambition. Who knows to what heights he might have risen but for his untimely end?"
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There are many rumors that surround Christopher Marlowe’s life. The most famous is the evidence that supports him being a government spy. His own death is linked to this theory. Other rumors concerning Marlowe involve him being a heretic. In May of 1593, anti Protestant bills, written in blank verse, and featuring allusions to Marlowe’s plays, were posted in London. Before he could be arrested, Marlowe was murdered in Deptford.
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Instead of entering the clergy, Marlowe headed for London to write plays for an acting company, the Admiral’s Men. His greatest works include: Tamburlaine (1587), about a hero who seeks limitless power, The Jew of Malta (1591), a hero who seeks limitless wealth, and
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