ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Where was Christopher Marlowe educated? On January 14, 1579, Christopher Marlowe entered the King’s School, Canterbury, as a scholar. A year later he went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Marlowe obtained both a bachelor’s degree (1584) and a master’s degree (1587) at Cambridge.

Detailed explanation-2: -By age 14, Marlowe was a pupil at The King’s School, Canterbury on a scholarship and two years later a student at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he also studied through a scholarship with expectation that he would become an Anglican clergyman. Instead, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1587 the university hesitated to award him his master’s degree because of a rumor that he had converted to Catholicism and gone to the English college at Rheims to prepare for the priesthood.

Detailed explanation-4: -The playwright was baptised on February 26th, 1564.

Detailed explanation-5: -Christopher Marlowe was a playwright and poet who lived in England during the Elizabethan era. Born in the same year, he was greatly influenced by William Shakespeare, who became famous following Marlowe’s enigmatic untimely death. He was known for his enthusiastic protagonists and his dedicated use of blank verse.