of the Renaissance
except for William Shakespeare.
His plays are
Tamerlane (or Tamburlaine) the Great
Doctor Faustus
Edward II
The Jew of Malta
The Massacre at Paris
Dido, Queen of Carthage
He was born in February 1564,
and attended
Kings School, Canterbury,
and then Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, leaving with a B.A.
and M.A.
In 1593 the famous mystery occurred...
did he die in an ale house in Deptford, Kent?
OR, was there a cover-up and conspiracy,
and did he go on to write the plays of
Shakespeare?
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is thought to have been a friend of
Sir Walter Ralegh, and to have attended
the gatherings sometimes known as School of Night, together with many
titled and/or intellectual men.
They studied subjects not approved of in
those days, various scientific and perhaps
occult matters, which is why the
gatherings had to be clandestine.
survive at Deptford?
did the Lord High Admiral,
Lord Charles Howard, save him?
this, and many other
interesting things,
are featured in
worked as a spy, secret agent or
intelligencer.
On one occasion he was accused of
counterfeiting a coin, in Holland,
but seems to have escaped imprisonment.
Marlowe's era, the spies, and the day in
Deptford,
is The Reckoning, by Charles Nicholl.