Christopher Marlowe Article

How did Christopher Marlowe die?

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On May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe was killed by Ingram Frizer, in the dubious company of Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley, at a lodging house in Deptford, outside London, where they had spent most of the day and where, it was alleged, a fight had broken out between them over the bill.