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Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright and a contemporary of William Shakespeare. Born 6 February 1564 in Canterbury, he was raised in the merchant class and had access to at least a decent education. He graduated from Benet College in 1571 and in the 1580s he joined the Lord Admiral's Company of Players in London.
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Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) was a skillful poet and talented playwright, but ... his works never managed to achieve the great recognition of that of his contemporary Shakespeare. He died young in a pub brawl.
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Christopher Marlowe has appeared as a character in several recent works of fiction. He is most commonly portrayed as a friend of William Shakespeare. He was recently portrayed by actor Rupert Everett in the film Shakespeare in Love. He appears in a scene discussing The Massacre of Paris with William Shakespeare. His last line in the film is “Well, I’m off to Deptford!” His murder plays a brief but significant part in the film. Marlowe ... appears in Neil Gaiman’s comic strip The Sandman, as well as the popular British science fiction drama, Doctor Who.
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Christopher Marlowe - a possible spy with a reputation for atheism who was murdered in mysterious circumstances - courted danger throughout his life. A sense of the dark forces operating in social and political relationships underlies his work. In Dr. Faustus, a man of great intellect and even greater ambition craves knowledge, and is prepared to sell his soul to the Devil to achieve it. Tamburlaine attempts to satisfy his desire for greatness through his domination over an ever-growing empire, while Edward II upsets the delicate balance of power in the land and plants the seed of his own murder. All the plays here show Marlowe's fascination with the tension between weak and strong, sacred and profane.
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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born in Canterbury the year of Shakespeare’s birth. Like Shakespeare, he was of a prosperous middle-class family, but unlike Shakespeare he went to a university, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he received the bachelor’s degree in 1584 and the master’s degree in 1587. The terms of his scholarship implied that he was preparing for the clergy but he did not become a clergyman. Shortly before he received his M.A. the University seems to have wished to withhold it, apparently suspecting him of conversion to Roman Catholicism, but the Queen’s Privy Council intervened on his behalf, stating that he “had done her majesty good service” and had been employed “in matters touching the benefit of the country.” His precise service is unknown. After Cambridge, Marlowe went to London, where he apparently lived a turbulent life (he had two brushes with the law and was said to be disreputable) while pursuing a career as a dramatist. He wrote seven plays--the dates of which are uncertain--before he was yet again in legal difficulties: he was arrested in 1593, accused of atheism.
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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born two months before William Shakespeare and in somewhat similar social circumstances. Marlowe's father was a shoemaker; Shakespeare's a glovemaker. But unlike Shakespeare, Marlowe won a scholarship to Cambridge, where he remained six years and began his career as a playwright. His first play, Tamburlaine, was finished before he left the university. When it was performed in London, it had the benefit of Edward Alleyn, the finest actor of his time, playing the title role.
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