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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040509
Author:Mark Bostridge

Who was Christopher Marlowe? We know that he was born in Canterbury in 1564, the son of an unusually literate shoemaker, that he was educated at the local King's School, and that he went on to study at Corpus Christi, Cambridge where he received a BA in 1584 and an MA three years later. We can also state with some certainty that his blank verse dramas - Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus - were both popular and highly influential; and that together they make him the most important English dramatist before Shakespeare. However, beyond this, the factual record begins to ...

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