Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) was was an Elizabethan poet and playwright. He was born in Canterbury, two months before the birth of William Shakespeare. In 1580, he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, on a scholarship awarded to students preparing for a career in the ministry. In school, Marlowe began writing plays. In 1587, he applied to do his Master of Arts. The University attempted to deny him on the grounds that he intended to go abroad to Rheims, a hotbed of Catholic intrigue and propaganda against Elizabeth. Fortunately for his sake, the privy council intervened, and approved his application.