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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20021031
Author:Michael Toscano

Christopher Marlowe -- the film noir detective indelibly played by Humphrey Bogart, the guy who made loneliness cool, the secret romantic who was always ready with a cynical crack, the guy who took no guff from authority figures.

Wait a minute. That was Philip Marlowe, and he's fictional.

Christopher Marlowe was a great English dramatist, poet and, yes, spy who might have outshone Shakespeare if he hadn't been stabbed to death in 1593 at age 29. Yeah, Christopher Marlowe, who made loneliness cool, had a cynical wit disguising a romantic core and had trouble with those in charge. It's easy to ...

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