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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.
The play The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe was first published in 1604. A second version of the work was later published in 1616. Although the play was first printed in 1604, it is believed to have been performed approximately a decade earlier.12