An interactive exhibition in collaboration with our own Dr Rory Loughnane exploring the life of Canterbury\u2019s most famous poet and playwright, Christopher Marlowe. <\/p>\n
Sat 25th July 2026 to Sun 22nd November 2026
\nThe Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury<\/p>\n
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Born in 1564\u2014the same year as William Shakespeare\u2014Marlowe came of age during the height of the English Renaissance. The son of a shoemaker, he received an elite education thanks to scholarships that took him from the King\u2019s School, Canterbury to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.<\/p>\n
By the late 1580s, he was writing for London\u2019s commercial playhouses, completing tragedies such as Tamburlaine and Doctor Faustus that stunned audiences with their power and intensity. His \u2018mighty line\u2019 helped to transform the sound of English drama.<\/p>\n
Marlowe\u2019s life was as dramatic as his works. He may have served as a spy for Elizabeth I\u2019s government while at Cambridge. He was arrested several times in England and abroad, accused of violent behaviour and illicit activities, suspected of heresy and atheism, and ultimately killed at the age of just twenty-nine in suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n
Despite his short and turbulent life, Marlowe left behind an extraordinary legacy of poetry, translations, and plays that changed the course of English literature.<\/p>\n
Visit the exhibition to discover artefacts, historical documents and interactive displays that bring to the life the story of Canterbury\u2019s notorious poet, playwright, and provocateur!<\/p>\n
Saturday 25 July to Sunday 22 Nov 2026 (Closed Mondays)<\/strong><\/p>\n Special Exhibitions Room, The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge<\/strong><\/p>\n Admission Free | Please donate<\/strong><\/p>\n Created in partnership: Canterbury Museums & Galleries | The Oxford Marlowe Project at the University of Kent<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interactive exhibition in collaboration with our own Dr Rory Loughnane exploring the life of Canterbury\u2019s most famous poet and playwright, Christopher Marlowe. Sat 25th … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82691,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251192,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}