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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.
Christopher Marloweās two-part play, Tamburlaine the Great, was first performed by the end of 1587 and was published in 1590.123