Christopher Marlowe Majd Al Hussaini Mrs Timm 12
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Christopher Marlowe Majd Al. Hussaini Mrs. Timm 12 A January 19, 2014
Introduction • Baptized 26 February, 1564. • date of birth is unknown.
Family • John Marlowe • Kathrin Arthur is his mother.
Education • The Kings School. • Got a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. • Bachelors degree
Career • Worked for Sir Francis Walsingham • Queen Elizabeth’s secretary. • Worked as a secret agent. • Had to protect the queen. • His career as a writer.
Accomplishments • Marlowe's poetry • Doctor Faustus • Some of his other plays • His most famous poem is Hero and Leander.
Personal life • Marlow never married.
Latter life and Death • Die on may 30, 1593 (29 years) in Deptford, England. • Was assassinated • buried in St. Nickolas's church yard.
Work Cited • Bakeless, John. The tragicall history of Christopher Marlowe. . . Vol. 2. Harvard University Press, 1942. • Boas, Frederick S. , and Christopher Marlowe. "A Biographical and Critical Study. " (1940). Levin, Harry. • Boas, Frederick Samuel. Christopher Marlowe. Clarendon Press, 1940. • The Overreacher: A Study of Christopher Marlowe. Vol. 19. Harvard University Press, 1952.
Work cited continued • Marlowe, Christopher, and George Chapman. Hero and Leander: A Poem. From the Press of C. Whittingham, 1821. • Nicholl, Charles. The reckoning: the murder of Christopher Marlowe. University of Chicago Press, 1995. • Riggs, David. The World of Christopher Marlowe. Macmillan, 2004. • Wraight, Annie Doris. In search of Christopher Marlowe: a pictorial biography. Macdonald, 1965.
