Christopher Marlowe vs William Shakespeare

I was browsing through some facts and link regarding about Christopher Marlowe when this image suddenly strike me in the head. Don't both Christpoher Marlowe(CM) and William Shakespeare(WS) look similar? May be it is because o the beard and hair but the image just won't go away. Is it just me or don't all of you guys agree to it? After this picture, I went and google both great play writters and found out some interesting stuff on both of them. In a way, both of them are link to gether and always being compared with. So, here is what I have to share about them:

The Mystery surrounding the life and death of Christopher Marlowe has intrigued many. It has even lead to serious debate as to whether CM and WS are in fact the same person.

CM moved in high circles within the court of Queen Elizabeth I. The chie advisor to the Queen was Sir Francis Walsingham whose role necessitated a network of spies and it was believed that Marlowe was in his employ in this capacity. Marlowe was reported to have been killed in a tavern in Deptford, a district of London, on May 30th 1593. Marlowe and his friend Ingram Frizer were drinking together and when they were about to leae began to argue over the payment of the bill. He grabbed Ingram Frizer's dagger from its sheath, there was a struggle and Ingram Frizer retrieved the dagger and struck a blow to Marlowe's eye. The blow was a lethal one and CM's body was said to have been buried two days later at an unspecified location in an umarked grave. The mystery is that a week earlier a warrant had been issued by the Church's Star Chamber for the poet's arrest on charges of heresy, which carried the death penalty. Both men were spies and secret agents for Walsingham, hs killer, Frizer, pleaded self-defence and immediately received a Royal pardon from Queen Elizabeth. CM lived between 1564-1593. WS lived between 1564-1616, their writing styles were extremely similar especailly their use of Blank Verse. So the question is, was he really killed? Did he perhaps write some of the plays attributed to WS? The unusual circumstances of his death at the age of 29, his links to Walsingham's spy network, not to mention the lack of a body at the time of the inquest, have helped ensure he is still a topic of dicussion some 400 years after his death.