Marlowe

American  

[mahr-loh] / ˈmɑr loʊ /

noun

1. Christopher, 1564–93, English dramatist and poet.

2. Julia Sarah Frances Frost Sothern, 1866–1950, U.S. actress born in England (wife of E. H. Sothern).

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Marlowe British  

/ ˈmɑːləʊ /

noun

1. Christopher. 1564–93, English dramatist and poet, who established blank verse as a creative form of dramatic expression. His plays include Tamburlaine the Great (1590), Edward II (?1592), and Dr Faustus (1604). He was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl

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Marlowe said she is "thrilled to be joining the Radio 1 family" and hopes to "captivate your ears, not so much your eyes due to it being radio".

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Away from the camera, Muldoon - who had a band called The Sleeping Masses - also worked behind the scenes, producing films such as The Tribes of Palos Verdes, Arkansas and Marlowe.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

Marlowe said Home Depot is not “notified that immigration enforcement activities are going to happen, and we aren’t involved in the operations.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

New discoveries and old hunches borne out by computer analysis have indicated how often and how deeply he collaborated with writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd and John Fletcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

He attended the King’s School in Canterbury in the early 1580s, at the same time as Christopher Marlowe, who was two years older than him, then studied at Cambridge.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin