I . Christopher Marlowe
(1564–93)
an English writer of plays and poetry. He is considered the greatest English playwright of the period before William Shakespeare , and was an important influence on Shakespeare’s style. His best-known works are Tamburlaine ( c. 1587), Doctor Faustus , The Jew of Malta ( c. 1590) and Edward II ( c. 1592). He may also have written parts of the Shakespeare plays Titus Andronicus and Henry VI . Marlowe led a wild and violent life, was put in prison briefly in 1589 on suspicion of murder, and was himself murdered in a fight at the age of 29.
II . Philip Marlowe
a character created by the writer Raymond Chandler . He is a tough but honest private detective and appears in seven Chandler novels, including The Big Sleep (1939).