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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 Marlowe died at a lodging house in Deptford, near London, on May 30, 1593.123
He was killed by Ingram Frizer, a business agent, while in the company of two other men, Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley. Although it was alleged that a fight broke out between them over the bill, the circumstances of his death have long been the subject of various conspiracy theories.132