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Christopher Marlowe
Detail of a portrait thought to be of Christopher Marlowe, dated 1585, artist unknown; in the collection of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England.
John Marlowe, the father of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, worked as a shoemaker in Canterbury.1