In 1584 he graduated as Bachelor of Arts. He received some of his early education at The King’s School, Canterbury, and an Archbishop Parker scholarship took him from this school to Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge. The son of John and Catherine Marlowe, Marlowe was born in Canterbury, where his father was shoemaker, in 1564. The prologue to Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great (1587–1588) proclaims its author’s contempt for the stage verse of the period, in which the “jygging vaines of riming mother wits” presented the “conceits clownage keepes in pay”: instead the new play promised a barbaric foreign hero, the “Scythian Tamburlaine, Threatning the world with high astounding terms.” English drama was never the same again. Most dramatic poets of the 16th century followed where Marlowe had led, especially in their use of language and the blank-verse line. A few months the elder, Marlowe was usually the leader, although Shakespeare was able to bring his art to a higher perfection. The achievement of Christopher Marlowe, poet and dramatist, was enormous-surpassed only by that of his exact contemporary, William Shakespeare.
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