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Marlowe was christened at St George's Church, Canterbury.The tower, shown here, is all that survived destruction during the Baedeker air raids of 1942.. Christopher Marlowe, the second of nine children, and oldest child after the death of his sister Mary in 1568, was born to Canterbury shoemaker John Marlowe and his wife Katherine, daughter of William Arthur of Dover. [8]
Richard Bull (1571-1590, his death) Eleanor Bull (c. 1550 – 1596) was an English woman, known for owning the establishment in which Christopher Marlowe , the Elizabethan playwright and poet, was killed in 1593.
Nicholas Skeres (March 1563 – c. 1601) was an Elizabethan con-man and government informer—i.e. a "professional deceiver" [1] —and one of the three "gentlemen" who were with the poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe when he was killed in Deptford in May 1593. [2]
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For several years before his death, Christopher Marlowe had been employed in some intelligence capacity on behalf of the government. [16] [17] [18] In the spring of 1593 he appears to have been staying at Thomas Walsingham's home at Scadbury, near Chislehurst in Kent, and had been invited by Frizer to a "feast" in Deptford, [19] a township on the river Thames some seven miles to the north, at ...
INTERVIEW: The adored TV star was shot dead on her doorstep 24 years ago, and the killer is still at large. Ellie Harrison hears from the executive producer of a new Netflix documentary about the ...