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Marlowe (CHRISTOPHER English dramatist)

CHRISTOPHER, English dramatist; born in Canterbury about 1564. Soon after graduating at Cambridge (1583), he became dramatist to the "Lord Admiral's Company," London, which produced most of his plays. Among them were the tragedies "Life and Death of Dr. Faustus" (1601); "The Jew of Malta" and "Edward II." (1593), MARLOWE his best work. Many believe him to have been the author of the second and third parts of Shakespeare's "Henry VI." He wrote also the first part of a narrative poem, " Hero and Leander," completed afterward by George Chapman. He died June June 1, 1593.

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