Christopher Marlowe

Also known as Kit Marlowe

English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)

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Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet, translator, and writer born in Canterbury in 1564. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, and The King's School Canterbury. Marlowe wrote in the English language and is noted for works including *Edward II*, *The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus*, and *The Jew of Malta*.

He died in Deptford on 30 May 1593 from a stabbing attack, classified as homicide. His works have been described by sources such as the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition. Marlowe is also associated with the Elizabethan era and has been compared to figures such as William Shakespeare and John Keats.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1564
Died: 30 May 1593.
Works: 657

Top works

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus
The rich Jew of Malta
The famous tragedy of the rich Jew of Malta
Édouard II

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Film & TV

Writing · Canterbury, England, UK

Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593) was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. His best-known plays are: Dido, Queen of Carthage (c.1585–87), Tamburlaine (c.1587), The Jew of Malta (c.1589–90), Doctor Faustus (c.1588–92), Edward II (c.1592), and The Massacre of Paris (c.1593).

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1564
Active to: 1593

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Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 320
Total plays: 1,131

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,516x
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,631x
A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,568x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,860x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x

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Quotes

“Come live with me and be my Love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat hills and valleys, dales and fields,Or woods or steepy mountain yields.And we will sit upon the rocks,And see the shepherds feed their flocksBy shallow rivers, to whose fallsMelodious birds sing madrigals.And I will make thee beds of rosesAnd a thousand fragrant posies.”
“You sons of care, companions of my course!”
“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
“What strange arts necessity finds out.”
“Time passeth swift away;Our life is frail, and we may die to-day.”
“Our swords shall play the orators for us.”

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Works in European collections

4 objects attributed to Christopher Marlowe, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Christopher Marlowe (/ˈmɑːrloʊ/ MAR-loh; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the preeminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the prurient tastes of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence, cruelty, and bloodshed.

Events in Marlowe's life were sometimes as extreme as those found in his plays. Differing sensational reports of Marlowe's death in 1593 abounded after the event and are contested by scholars today owing to a lack of good documentation. There have been many conjectures as to the nature and reason for his death, including a vicious bar-room fight, blasphemous libel against the church, homosexual intrigue, betrayal by another playwright, and espionage from the highest level: the Privy Council of Elizabeth I. An official coroner's account of Marlowe's death was discovered only in 1925, and it did little to persuade all scholars that it told the whole story, nor did it eliminate the uncertainties present in his biography.

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Christopher Marlowe