How did Christopher know Shakespeare you ask? He knew him through the people of the town. There is no existing record of them meeting, but it seems unlikely that they wouldn't have crossed paths at some point. At the beginning of Shakespeare's career they both were writing for the same theatre, the Rose, and would have both been in the same social circles. They were rivals through the plays they wrote and acted.
Marlowe and Shakespeare were both playwright's in London in the late sixteenth century. Marlowe was one of the most popular playwrights when Shakespeare began his career in the theatre. They occasionally wrote for the same theatre companies. While any personal relationship between the two would be difficult to prove, it is unlikely that they weren't familiar with one another. They were certainly familiar with each other's works. Marlowe was a significant influence on Shakespeare and it is not out of the realm of possibility that there were collaborations, as they were very common at that time. There's no prove of their having worked together, however, and there are other writers that would have been more likely to have collaborated with Shakespeare.
Shakespear was a playwright, so he made up the story of Romeo and Juliet and wrote his famous play from the story. Well, actually he didn't make up the story. He took it from a poem called Romeus and Juliet by a man named Arthur Brooke.
Marlowe was a brilliant poet who greatly improved the lyrical quality of playwriting during his short life and brief career. He is considered by many to be the second greatest Elizabethan playwright after Shakespeare, so comparisons are natural
Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright. He was born in 1564, two months before Shakespeare. He was university educated, and began writing plays for the Theatrical Company the Lord Admiral's Men. He wrote the following plays: Tamburlaine, parts one and two, Doctor Faustus, The Massacre at Paris, Edward II, and the Jew of Malta. All of these are tragedies. Marlowe was unfortunately killed in a tavern brawl by some agents sent to arrest him at the extremely young age of 29 in 1593.
Although Marlowe and Shakespeare were of an age, there is no reason to think that they knew each other or worked together. Shakespeare was, however, a great admirer of Marlowe. Although tragedies in iambic pentameter had been written as early as Gorbuduc in 1561, Marlowe's mastery of poetic verse pushed the writing of tragic verse into a whole new dimension. Shakespeare acknowledged the debt he owed to Marlowe by occasionally quoting him or making allusions to his work.
Queen Elizabeth was queen when he was an active playwright, so she may have seen his plays.
Greatest dramatist until Shakespeare
You must mean in the movie Shakespeare in Love, where Shakespeare has given the false name "Christopher Marlowe" and believes that his (Shakespeare's) enemies have killed Marlowe by mistake. This is an entirely fictional story for which there is no basis in fact.
Christopher Marlowe
The Jew of Malta was written by Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare, around 1589.
Galileo and Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare did not have any bitter enemies, least of all his fellow playwrights such as Christopher Marlowe or Ben Jonson. Jonson, we know, was a friend and admirer of Shakespeare. Because Marlowe died so early in his career and before Shakespeare really got going, Marlowe didn't have much to say about Shakespeare, but Shakespeare admired Marlowe and included homages to him in his own plays. Playwrights of that time often worked together on plays, and we know that Shakespeare collaborated with John Fletcher late in his career, and many believe he also collaborated with George Poole on some of his early plays. The closest we hear from any of his contemporaries about anyone disliking Shakespeare in any way was Greene in his 1592 pamphlet Groatsworth of Wit, who talked about Shakespeare in rather unflattering terms (calling him an "upstart crow" for example) because Shakespeare did not have a university education like most of the playwrights of that time.
You must mean in the movie Shakespeare in Love, where Shakespeare has given the false name "Christopher Marlowe" and believes that his (Shakespeare's) enemies have killed Marlowe by mistake. This is an entirely fictional story for which there is no basis in fact.
Christopher Marlowe
they were tough competition ;)
Christopher Marlowe
Bacon outlived Shakespeare by ten years. Marlowe was killed by a man called Ingram Frizer.
The Jew of Malta was written by Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare, around 1589.
Christopher Marlowe was one. Perhaps Plutarch was another.
He wasn't; he died of natural causes. Maybe you are thinking of Christopher Marlowe.
William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe...
Perhaps you mean Christopher Marlowe.
Galileo and Christopher Marlowe
No. Christopher Marlowe did, although Shakespeare used it three times in his early plays and poems. Marlowe was very fond of this word and used it 17 times.