FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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26 February 1564
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12 January 1569
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30 April 1560
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10 October 1547
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was baptised at St George’s Church, Canterbury, on 26 February 1564 (1563 in the old style dates in use at the time, which placed the new year on 25 March).
Detailed explanation-2: -The playwright was baptised on February 26th, 1564.
Detailed explanation-3: -Christopher Marlowe was an Elizabethan poet and William Shakespeare’s most important predecessor in English drama. He is noted especially for his establishment of dramatic blank verse. In a playwriting career that spanned little more than six years, Marlowe’s achievements were diverse and splendid.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first tragedian worthy of the tradition of the Greeks was Christopher Marlowe. Of Marlowe’s tragedies, Tamburlaine (1587), Doctor Faustus (c. 1588), The Jew of Malta (1589), and Edward II (c. 1593), the first two are the most famous and most significant.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.