Who Killed Kit Marlowe?: A Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England Trow Taliesin
Who Killed Kit Marlowe?: A Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England Trow Taliesin Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of Elizabethan drama. When he died, stabbed through the eye in what appeared to be a…
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Who Killed Kit Marlowe?: A Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England Trow Taliesin
Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of Elizabethan drama. When he died, stabbed through the eye in what appeared to be a tavern brawl in Deptford in May 1593, he was only 29 and many people believed that he had met his just deserts.But Marlowe's death was not the result of a brawl. His 'mighty line' of iambic pentameter transformed the miracle plays of the Middle Ages into modern drama and he paved the way for Shakespeare and a dozen other greats who stole his metre and his ideas.
The facts tell a different story, one involving intrigue, espionage, alchemy and the highest in the land.Born the son of a shoemaker in Canterbury, Marlowe read Theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and was destined for a career in Elizabeth I's new Church of England. And it did not take place in a tavern. But in 1583, he moved to London and wrote dazzling new plays like Dido, Queen of Carthage,
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