Christopher Marlowe, baptised in Canterbury on 26 February 1564 and dead by 30 May 1593, was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan age. The son of a shoemaker, he studied on scholarships at The King's School and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and mastered Latin by translating Ovid. He is remembered above all for Tamburlaine, which was the first English play written in blank verse and helped set the standard for the stage of his time, and for Doctor Faustus and Edward II. Some scholars think he strongly influenced his exact contemporary William Shakespeare. His life was as violent as his plays: he died young in a disputed killing, and the circumstances of his death are still argued over by historians because of thin documentation.
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was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era
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was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era
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Tamburlaine was the first English play written in blank verse
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