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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 was born in Canterbury, Kent, England, where he was baptized on February 26, 1564.1