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'And this the man that in his study sits.' Dr. Faustus

"Marlowe's precise room has not been identified, but it was doubtless very similar to this one, as the Old Court rooms have been almost unaltered externally. The Elizabethan studen'ts life was not a 'bed of roses': up before five, when the clanging bell called them to service in the college chapel (lasting about one hour), breakfast at six o'clock, and a long day of study and lectures to follow in unheated rooms. It is no wonder that the frozen students were 'fayne to walk or runne up and downe half an hour to ghette a heate on their feet whan they go to bed'.

Photo and captions from In Search of Christopher Marlowe: A Pictorial Biography,
by A.D.Wraight and Virginia F. Stern.