Famous authors

• Christopher Marlowe


-Born in Canterbury, England in 1564


-May have been spy for English Secret Intelligence Service


-May have been an aethist, a crime at the time


-Wrote for the theatre and also poetry


-Wrote The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus


-Arrested for aethism, lots of conspiracy theories about his death


•Edmund Spenser


-Born in London, England in 1552


-Served England in a war in Ireland


-Tried to write poetry to secure place at court, made everyone angry instead


-Wrote a piece about how to defeat Ireland that also made everyone angry


-Also made the Irish burn down his castle and possibly kill his infant child and wife

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