This day in history: Christopher Marlowe was born on this day in 1564.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Some scholars believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright.
Did you know: Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh among others were in a group called The School of Night. The School of Night was a group of atheists. Anyone who was an atheist at that time were considered enemies of God and the state, by association.
One wonders if the Elizabethan occultist John Dee and Christopher Marlowe knew each other. Shakespeare, who knew Dee, hints in Love's labours Lost of a "School of Night". Shakespeare learned of Giordano Bruno from Dee, and made him the model for magus in the Tempest.
Marlowe died violently in 1593 at the young age of 29.
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