Christopher Marlowe Richard Burbage
Richard Burbage One of earl of Leicester' s players erected first English playhouse, The Theatre, in Shoreditch converted a house into Blackfriars Theatre.
Christopher Marlowe Apparently engaged in espionage service for the government while at Cambridge and perhaps afterwards; attached himself early as dramatist to the Admiral' s Men, which produced most of his plays; killed in a tavern brawl under mysterious circumstances