Who is Christopher Marlowe?

He pushed the limits of literary form, challenged religion, social and legal norms, he was a free thinker. He was only writing plays for six years in London and in that time he wrote 6 plays Doctor Faustus being the forth. He was the son of shoe maker and attended the king’s school. He won a scholarship to Cambridge University but they refused to let him in because they believed that he had converted to Catholicism but the crown and Privy Council stepped in and allowed him to get his degree, creating rumours that he was an agent for the crown. Marlowe died in a bar fight over a bill and was apparently stabbed in the eye, however many say that it has something to do with being charged of treason only days before his death. Conspiracy theories have abounded since, with Marlowe's atheism and alleged spy activities at the heart of the murder plots.