(Christopher), an English dramatic author, was a student in the university of Cambridge; but afterwards turning player, he trod the same stage with the inimitable Shakespeare. He was accounted an excellent poet even by Ben Jonson himself. He wrote six tragedies, one of which called Lucrezia Doni- nion, or the Injustitious Queen, has been altered by Mrs Behn, and acted under the title of Abdelazar, or the Moor's Revenge. Some time before his death, he had made a considerable progress in an excellent poem entitled Hero and Leander; which was afterwards finished by George Chapman, who is said to have fallen short of the spirit and invention discovered by Marloe. Mr Anthony Wood represents him as a free-thinker, in the worst sense of the word; and gives the following account of his death. Falling deeply in love with a low girl, and having for his rival a fellow in livery, Marloe, imagining that his mistress granted him favours, was fired with jealousy, and rushed upon him in order to stab him with his dagger; but the footman avoided the stroke, and, seizing his wrist, stabbed him with his own weapon; of which wound he died, in the year 1593.