The Talented Playwright Who Was Secretly A Gay Atheist Spy? | Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe is an enigma - a man who is famous as a talented playwright, rising to success from being a shoemaker's son, who may have also been a spy for the Elizabethan government, an atheist, and homosexual. The little we know about him comes mostly from other people, or from the few times he pops up with a play or criminal record! This video looks at Marlowe's extraordinary life, rising from a grammar school boy in Canterbury's lower-class districts, to a playwright admired by his fellow dramatists, as well as the circumstances of his bloody and violent death...


Sources/Related Books:

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl - https://amzn.to/3VdJMov

The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs - https://amzn.to/4c6Lv5O

The Complete Plays (Penguin Classics) by Christopher Marlowe - https://amzn.to/3Rir3He

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy by Park Honan - https://amzn.to/3KAJfIv

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Marlowe [Marley], Christopher by Charles Nicholl - https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/18079



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