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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 poem Hero and Leander, written by Christopher Marlowe, was left incomplete at the time of his death. The work was later extended by the poet George Chapman, and their joint version was published in 1598.12