id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1889 Christopher Marlowe - Wikipedia .html text/html 13006 1372 72 Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (/ˈmɑːrloʊ/; baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.[nb 1] Modern scholars count Marlowe among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights; based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, they consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death.[nb 2] Some scholars also 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.[nb 3] Marlowe was the first to achieve critical notoriety for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1889.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1889.txt