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Christopher Marlowe
(or Kit Marlowe)


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Hiroaki Sato translated "Basho's Narrow Road," "Right Under the Big Sky, I Don't Wear A Hat" and writes frequently on Japanese poetry.
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Was Inspiration Of
Burgess's novel, "A Dead Man In Deptford", is a fictionalized account of the life of Christopher Marlowe.
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Shakespeare was inspired by playwright Christopher Marlowe to employ blank verse as the formal meter of his drama. It was Marlowe who first mastered this verse form in the dramatic setting.
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Biography
Although the son of a poor shoemaker, Christopher Marlowe was such a gifted student that he won the privilege to attend the King's School, a celebrated educational institution for young boys that rarely granted admission to members of the working class. Marlowe's tuition was likely paid by a prominent member of the community, whom Marlowe later elegized. This was not the last of Marlowe's scholarships; his attendance at Cambridge, was likewise funded. He received his B.A. in 1584, continuing on more... 
 
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Birth Information
02/26/1564 Canterbury, Southern England, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,


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A reader wrote a review on Doctor Faustus (Dover Thrift)
The great scholar gives his soul to obtain anti-scholastic values. The most interesting way of writing and bearing the great hero's damnation, Christopher Marlowe deserves appreciation and the title of The Father of Renaissance Literature.


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