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Christopher Marlowe
Categories:
- Early Modern and Renaissance Studies,
- Gender and Sexuality in Theatre and Performance,
- Guided Reading,
- Plays for 11+,
- Plays: 21st Century,
- Plays: Early Modern and Renaissance,
- Plays: Student Editions and Guides,
- Set Texts: English,
- Set Texts: English Literature,
- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature
Biography
Christopher Marlowe was a playwright, poet, scholar, translator and alleged spy. His other works include: Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine Part 1, Tamburlaine Part 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and The Massacre at Paris. He was murdered at the age of 29, in a private dining house in Deptford in 1593.