Surname: Marlowe Forename(s): Christopher b. 1564. d. 30 May 1593. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Renaissance playwright, poet, and translator. Educated at Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge. Author of Edward II (1593), The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604), and the pastoral poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599). Stabbed to death under mysterious circumstances. Biographical information:
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