1. Christopher Marlowe
• Born in Canterbury, England in 1564.
• Died 1593 (aged 29)
• English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.
• Marlowe is sometimes described as homosexual.
• Cambridge hesitated to award him his Master of Arts.
• secret agent working for Sir Francis Walsingham.
2. Christopher Marlowe plays
• The Jew of Malta.
• Edward the Second.
• The Massacre at Paris.
• Doctor Faustus.