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    Christopher Marlowe (/ˈmɑːrloʊ/ MAR-loh; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator...
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    Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English playwright and poet, has appeared in works of fiction since the nineteenth century. He was a contemporary of...
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    voyage aboard HMS Resolution, and the mysterious apparent murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand. Though Deptford began as two small...
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  • Marlowe may refer to: Cade Marlowe (born 1997), American baseball player Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English dramatist, poet and translator Pat Marlowe...
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    by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust. It was probably written in 1592 or 1593, shortly before Marlowe's death...
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  • killing in self-defence by Ingram Frizer of the famous poet/dramatist Christopher Marlowe in May 1593. There is no known record of Poley's birth and early...
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    of Atheism". The group supposedly included poets and scientists Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, Matthew Roydon and Thomas Harriot. There is no firm...
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  • centuries who is notable for his reported killing of the playwright Christopher Marlowe in the home of Eleanor Bull on 30 May 1593. He may have been working...
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    popular being Sir Francis Bacon; Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford; Christopher Marlowe; and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby. Supporters of alternative...
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    The Marlowe Theatre is a 1,200-seat theatre in Canterbury named after playwright Christopher Marlowe, who was born and attended school in the city. It...
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    Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship (category Christopher Marlowe)
    playwright Christopher Marlowe was the main author of the poems and plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Further, the theory says Marlowe did not die...
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    to figures of vulgar fun. The story was popularised in England by Christopher Marlowe, who gave it a classic treatment in his play The Tragical History...
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    became popular secular writers. Prominent members of this group were Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Thomas Nashe from Cambridge, and John Lyly, Thomas...
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  • Jephcott has also worked in radio including the part of Marlowe in The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries. This aired briefly on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. Jephcott...
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    The Killing (2010) and Mike Walker's The Reckoning: The Death of Christopher Marlowe (2022). Gorman's stage credits include Ladybird (Royal Court), Flush...
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    The Jew of Malta (category Plays by Christopher Marlowe)
    title: The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta) is a play by Christopher Marlowe, written in 1589 or 1590. The plot primarily revolves around a Maltese...
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    English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, the prowess of English maritime adventurers, such as Francis Drake...
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    Tamburlaine (category Plays by Christopher Marlowe)
    Tamburlaine the Great is a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor Timur (Tamerlane/Timur...
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    Thomas Kyd The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Antonio's Revenge by John Marston...
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    The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (category Poetry by Christopher Marlowe)
    Shepherd to His Love" (1599), by Christopher Marlowe, is a pastoral poem from the English Renaissance (1485–1603). Marlowe composed the poem in iambic tetrameter...
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    role of the poet, gay atheist and spy Christopher Marlowe who was jealous of Shakespeare. Christopher Marlowe is preoccupied with death, the supernatural...
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    (2014–2019). Christopher Catesby Harington was born on 26 December 1986 in Acton, west London. His mother named him after Christopher Marlowe, whose first...
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    has been proposed that the portrait depicts the English playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), though several scholars have suggested that this is...
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    Edward II (play) (category Plays by Christopher Marlowe)
    Edward II, is a Renaissance or early modern period play written by Christopher Marlowe. It is one of the earliest English history plays, and focuses on...
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    of the new regime. Edward's relationship with Gaveston inspired Christopher Marlowe's 1592 play Edward II, along with other plays, films, novels and media...
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    Hero and Leander is a poem by Christopher Marlowe that retells the Greek myth of Hero and Leander. After Marlowe's untimely death, it was completed by...
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    MP". Geni.[unreliable source?] "CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE - Some biographical facts by Peter Farey". "Christopher Marlowe in London, by Mark Williams Eccles...
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  • Shakespeare in Love (category Cultural depictions of Christopher Marlowe)
    Confronted by Wessex, Shakespeare introduces himself as Christopher Marlowe. Wessex ejects "Marlowe" and threatens to kill him. Shakespeare finds Viola on...
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  • did not also write plays. Around 1591 Christopher Marlowe also joined this patron's service, and for a while Marlowe and Kyd shared lodgings, and perhaps...
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    screenwriter Christopher Maloney (English singer) (born 1977), British singer-songwriter Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), English dramatist Christopher Anthony...
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