Christopher Marlowe — Canterbury's most famous literary son, a contemporary of Shakespeare, and the author of Doctor Faustus — is commemorated by an oddly delicate bronze statue of the Muse of Poetry outside the theatre that bears his name. The figure was unveiled in 1891 and originally stood on the Buttermarket near the cathedral; she was moved to her current spot in front of the Marlowe Theatre in the 1990s.
Marlowe was born in Canterbury in 1564, went to the King's School here, and was stabbed to death in a Deptford tavern in 1593 — possibly in a fight over the bill, possibly because he was an Elizabethan spy whose usefulness had ended. The statue is unobtrusive enough that you can walk past it twice without noticing. Worth two minutes on the way in or out of the theatre.