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Dr.Faustus
Christopher Marlowe was born in February 1564, the same year as Shakespeare. He attended the University of Cambridge and graduated with an M.A. After graduating he moved to London where he became a playwright. He produced seven plays, and all of them were very popular. His best known plays were Dr.Faustus, Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta. His work was later adopted by many of his contemporaries, including William Shakespeare. In fact, Shakespeare’s early histories were strongly influenced by Marlowe, and he paid tribute to him in As You Like It as the ‘dead shepherd’.
Christopher Marlowe was influential, yet he led a violent life. In 1589 he was involved in a street fight where the poet T.Watson killed a man. Early in 1592 he was deported from the Netherlands for forging gold coins. He was also accused of heresy, was arrested and lat
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