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Christopher Marlowe

1564 - 1593

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Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Marlowe has received more than 5,151,506 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Christopher Marlowe is the 437th most popular writer (down from 312th in 2019), the 338th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 239th in 2019) and the 39th most popular British Writer.

Christopher Marlowe is most famous for his plays, especially Dr. Faustus and The Jew of Malta. He is also known for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Lucan's Pharsalia.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christopher Marlowe ranks 437 out of 5,755Before him are Constantine P. Cavafy, Louisa May Alcott, Traudl Junge, Yunus Emre, Tennessee Williams, and Patrick Modiano. After him are Enid Blyton, Frantz Fanon, Mika Waltari, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Comte de Lautréamont, and Seneca the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1564, Christopher Marlowe ranks 4Before him are Galileo Galilei, William Shakespeare, and Pieter Brueghel the Younger. After him are William Adams, Paulo Miki, David Fabricius, Ahmad Sirhindi, Francisco Pacheco, Hans Leo Hassler, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Joos de Momper. Among people deceased in 1593, Christopher Marlowe ranks 2Before him is Giuseppe Arcimboldo. After him are Emperor Ōgimachi, Li Shizhen, Juan de Herrera, Jacques Amyot, Symon Budny, Maciej Stryjkowski, Xu Wei, Louis III, Duke of Württemberg, and Abd al-Samad.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Marlowe ranks 338 out of 7,765Before him are Gertrude Bell (1868), Anne, Princess Royal (1950), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), Rod Stewart (1945), Henry Moseley (1887), and William Hogarth (1697). After him are Enid Blyton (1897), Vivienne Westwood (1941), Ian Gillan (1945), Marie of Romania (1875), Tristan (535), and Anne Hathaway (1556).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Christopher Marlowe ranks 39Before him are Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), William Wordsworth (1770), Ken Follett (1949), George Eliot (1819), G. K. Chesterton (1874), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828). After him are Enid Blyton (1897), Thomas Paine (1737), John Galsworthy (1867), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), D. H. Lawrence (1885), and Harold Pinter (1930).