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When did Christopher Marlowe start making music?
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Christopher Marlowe's first song “The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (Part 1)” released on January 1, 1592.
Playwright, poet, rebel, spy–some critics claim Marlowe (1564-1593) would have been as good as his contemporary Shakespeare if he hadn’t died young in a bar brawl. Nowadays he’s best known for Doctor Faustus, and for making blank verse the default form for drama in the Early Modern period.
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