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  =Backround = = =  Christophere Marlowe was a famous English Poet, Dramatist, and Translator. He lived from 1564-1593. He was born in Canterbury on February 6th. He is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists (the main character in a drama or another type of literary work iin which he goes beyond the expected)), and his own mysterious and untimely death. His Father was a shoemaker named John Marlowe and his wife's (Christophere's Mother) name was Katherine. Christophere attened a school named The King's School, Were a house is now named after him. After that he attened Corpus Christi College on a scholarship were he recived his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1584. He almost did not recive his Scholorship because of a rumour that he had converted to the Roman Catholicism religon.  =**His Literary Career** =  His first play that h had proformed on stage was "Tamburlaine" (First performed in 1587), it was about a conqueror by the name of Timur. A shephered that turned to a Warrior. One of the first English plays in blank verse (which i do not know what black verse means so it's plahiarised). It was a success and he soon come out with Tamburlaine Part 2. The Jew of Malta was about a Jew's revenge aginst the city authorities. Best known for it's unsympathetic portrayal of it's charcaters.The Massacre at Paris was a short peice of his work, resembles Saint Batholomew's Day Massacre in 1572. It was veiwed as the blackest exampleof Catholic Treachery, It is consisdered the most dangerous play. Those plays were his contribution to the renaissance but most was over shadowed because William Shakesphere wrote plays and it is speculated that he stole some from him.

Letter to the Future To the future, Please keep writing plays that leaves the audiance on the edge of their seats, a good play never had a person fully in the seat because their not interested in what may pop out next. Turn my plays into movies so people can acctuly picture what was going through my mond when I wrote the play. I wrote the plays the way I did because of my perspective I had felt from my peers and the places that surrounded me.