Born 1564.

Educated King's School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi College where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1584 and his Masters degree three years later.

Settled in London in 1587 and began career as a playwright.

Marlowe soon wrote Tamburlaine, the first notable English play in blank verse.

In 1593, after pointing out what he considered to be inconsistencies in the Bible, Marlowe fell under suspicion of heresy.

His roommate was tortured into giving evidence against him, but before he could be brought before the Privy Council, the poet was found dead at Dame Eleanore Bull's tavern in Deptford.

Died 1593.



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