The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Marlowe, Christopher
Marlowe, Christopher
(
1564
–
93
), son of a Canterbury shoemaker, educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a BA in
1584
, and MA, after some difficulty, in
1587
. Though of excellent classical attainments, as his writings make clear, he seems to have been of a violent and at times criminal temperament. It is not clear whether visits he made to the Continent related to espionage. In
1589
he was involved in a street fight in which the poet
T.
Watson
killed a man; an injunction was brought against him by the constable of Shoreditch three years later. Early in
1592
he was deported from the Netherlands for attempting to issue forged gold coins. On
30
May
1593
he was killed by one
Ingram
Frizer
(as
Hotson
discovered) in a Deptford tavern after a quarrel over the bill;
Marlowe
was at the time under warrant to appear before the Privy Council on unknown charges. ...
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