Christopher Marlowe Warrant

The author I was chosen to write about is Christopher Marlowe he is a very interesting person to do research on due to the amount of things that happened to him in such little time. Christopher Marlowe is also known as, Kit Marlowe was born February 6, 1564. He was an English poet and translator during his era. He was born in Canterbury to a shoe maker named John Marlowe and his mother Catherine. On February 26th 1564 he was baptized. Marlowe was only two months older than Shakespeare. He attended the Kings School in Canterbury and went to Corpus Christi College and also Cambridge where he studied to receive his bachelor's degree in Arts in 1584. He was then given the award of Master of Arts. Marlowe was very intelligent and was a very well rounded and strong writer and he proved it in his plays and books.

It was said that Christopher Marlowe influenced William Shakespeare, which was born in the same year as Marlowe. Christopher Marlowe could’ve been known as an even better writer than Shakespeare if it wouldn’t have been for his early mysterious death. A warrant was set on Christopher Marlowe on May 18th, 1593. There was no specific reason given for the warrant to be put on him. The only thing the warrant could be traced

Hero and Leander is based off of a greek myth and so Christopher wrote about it. Christopher Marlowe’s first play he ever wrote was called “Dido, Queen of Carthage”. The play was first published in 1594, a year after Marlowe's death, it is said that it was co written by Thomas Nashe to finish the story after Marlowe’s death. Christopher Marlowe’s first ever play performed was “Tamburlaine the Great” it was performed in London in 1587. Christopher Marlowe was a successful writer and made many plays which were published after his death. Christopher Marlowe is a very influential writer to all the new writers from today's