Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe was an influential English Elizabethan poet and playwright, widely regarded as William Shakespeare's most important predecessor in drama and the father of English tragedy. He is best known for his masterpiece 'Doctor Faustus' and for pioneering the use of unrhymed pentameter (blank verse) in English literature. Marlowe lived a short life, dying at age 29 in a violent fight in Deptford in 1593.

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