Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) was an English Elizabethan playwright, poet, and translator, baptized on February 26, 1564, in Canterbury, Kent, England, son of a shoemaker. He pioneered dramatic blank verse in plays like *Doctor Faustus*, *Tamburlaine the Great*, and *Edward II*, profoundly influencing William Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama. Marlowe studied at Cambridge, possibly worked as a secret agent, faced arrests for controversial ideas, and died mysteriously at age 29 in a Deptford brawl.[2][3][4]