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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Marlowe, Christopher

Marlowe, Christopher
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Christopher Marlowe's Life:

Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the year of Shakespeare's birth, in
the city of Canterbury. Records indicate that Marlowe was baptized on the
twenty-sixth day of February. Marlowe's family was a prosperous one, and his
father was a member of the Shoemaker's Guild. Before he was fifteen years old,
Christopher Marlowe entered the King's School, Canterbury on a scholarship,
and slightly less than two years later he went to Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge. As a recipient of an Archbishop Matthew Parker Scholarship to
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