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Christopher Marlowe

1564 - 1593

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Christopher Marlowe ( MAR-loh; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the preeminent Elizabethan playwright. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christopher Marlowe is the 396th most popular writer (up from 498th in 2019), the 372nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 350th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Writer.

Christopher Marlowe is most famous for his plays, especially Dr. Faustus and The Jew of Malta. He is also known for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Lucan's Pharsalia.

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Among writers, Christopher Marlowe ranks 396 out of 7,302. Before him are Elena Ferrante, Sylvia Plath, Paul Éluard, Octavio Paz, Enheduanna, and Joseph Roth. After him are Giosuè Carducci, Harry Martinson, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Frank Herbert, William Wordsworth, and Verner von Heidenstam.

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Among people born in 1564, Christopher Marlowe ranks 5. Before him are Galileo Galilei, William Shakespeare, William Adams, and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. After him are Paulo Miki, David Fabricius, Francisco Pacheco, Hans Leo Hassler, Ahmad Sirhindi, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Federico Borromeo. Among people deceased in 1593, Christopher Marlowe ranks 2. Before him is Giuseppe Arcimboldo. After him are Emperor Ōgimachi, Juan de Herrera, Li Shizhen, Jacques Amyot, Maciej Stryjkowski, Symon Budny, Xu Wei, Louis III, Duke of Württemberg, Hans Bol, and Abd al-Samad.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Marlowe ranks 372 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Ustinov (1921), Ken Loach (1936), Rod Stewart (1945), Peter Mayhew (1944), Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), and Joe Cocker (1944). After him are Christian de Duve (1917), Olivia Newton-John (1948), Brian Jones (1942), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Alec Guinness (1914), and David Lloyd George (1863).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Christopher Marlowe ranks 36. Before him are Anne Brontë (1820), William Golding (1911), Roald Dahl (1916), John Keats (1795), Jane Hawking (1944), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792). After him are William Wordsworth (1770), Graham Greene (1904), John Galsworthy (1867), Ian Fleming (1908), Philip Larkin (1922), and Thomas De Quincey (1785).

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