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Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the year of William Shakespeare's birth. His father worked in Canterbury, England, as a cobbler, and Christopher was one of many children to be born into their middle-class household (Bakeless 3-30).

After attending the King's School on a scholarship, he won another scholarship to attend Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

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Marlowe completed his BA degree in four years and then stayed on at Cambridge to work towards an MA. Students who did so were granted an extended scholarship—and were expected to take Holy Orders.

During the following three years, Marlowe began to absent himself from the college for weeks on end.

Although such absences were not uncommon among BA students, Marlowe's spotty attendance seems to have earned the ire of the college administration. Rumors arose that Marlowe planned to defect to the Catholic seminary of Rheims, France.

Amidst such rumors, it became