""The man who had lost his life in this apparently meaningless struggle was none other than Christopher 'Kit' Marlowe, the 29-year-old darling of Elizabethan theatre and poetry.""
""fellow poet George Peele lamented the loss of a literary genius, referring to Marlowe as 'the darling of the muses' while Thomas Dekker imagined his soul in the Elysian Fields.""
On May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe was killed in a quarrel over a supper bill at a boarding house in Deptford. An argument escalated to violence, resulting in Marlowe inflicting a mortal wound on his attacker in self-defense, although he himself succumbed to injuries. His death elicited mixed reactions: while some, like George Peele, mourned the loss of a literary visionary, others expressed indifference or even satisfaction due to Marlowe's controversial reputation as a brawler and atheist, highlighting the polarized views of his life and legacy.
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