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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]
Christopher Marlowe, a re-enactment of Marlowe's life and death starring Stan Geverts as Marlowe, was broadcast on the Municipal Broadcasting System on October 11, 1950. [41] The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries, written by Ged Parsons and starring Dominic Jephcott as Marlowe, was a four-episode BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast in 2007. [42] [43]
The Marlovian theory of Shakespeare authorship holds that the Elizabethan poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was the main author of the poems and plays attributed to William Shakespeare. Further, the theory says Marlowe did not die in Deptford on 30 May 1593, as the historical records state, but that his death was faked.
The Jew of Malta (full 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 Jewish merchant named Barabas.
Portrait possibly of Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) The poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe was born into the same social class as Shakespeare—his father was a cobbler, Shakespeare's a glove-maker. Marlowe was the older by two months, and spent six and a half years at Cambridge University.
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy 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.