FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Edmund Spenser
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William Shakespeare
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John Milton
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Detailed explanation-1: -Marlowe was born in Canterbury in 1564, the son of an upmarket shoemaker and a clergyman’s daughter. Baptised on 26 February, he was only two months older than Shakespeare, who was baptised on 26 April of the same year.
Detailed explanation-2: -Marlowe’s birth was likely to have been a few days before, making him about two months older than William Shakespeare, who was baptised on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marlowe was born on February 6, 1564, and was baptized at Saint George’s church in Canterbury on February 26. After attending King’s School in Canterbury, Marlowe went to Corpus Christi College in Cambridge in December 1580.
Detailed explanation-4: -Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is to be credited by Oxford University Press as Shakespeare’s co-writer on three of the Bard’s plays. Marlowe has long been suspected in some quarters of having a hand in some of Shakespeare’s works.