Christopher Marlowe

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Milestones

Shortly before 26 February 1564

CM , poet and playwright, was born at Canterbury, the second child and eldest son in a family of nine; his elder sister died in 1568.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

30 May 1593

CM , spy, homosexual, poet, and playwright, was fatally stabbed in the head at a private house in Deptford near London where a room had been booked for supper for four men.
Nicholl, Charles. “Scribblers and Assassins”. London Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2002, pp. 30-3.
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Nicholl, Charles. The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
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Biography

Birth and Background

Shortly before 26 February 1564

CM , poet and playwright, was born at Canterbury, the second child and eldest son in a family of nine; his elder sister died in 1568.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.