Tamburlaine the Great | Biography
Born in Canterbury, England on February 6, 1564, Marlowe was the son of a shoemaker. He attended King’s School in Canterbury and was awarded a scholarship to Cambridge University, where he studied dialectics. Because of a number of mysterious absences from college, Marlowe was in danger of not receiving his master of arts degree. But Queen Elizabeth’s Privy Council intervened with a letter stating that he had been in the queen’s service and not, as was the rumor, part of a Catholic conspiracy in Rheims, France. In fact, many historians believe Marlowe was a spy of the queen’s...
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