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Resurrecting Christopher Marlowe As a Queer Icon

CrimeReads
The ghost was that of Christopher Marlowe: poet, playwright, heretic, and, in the parlance of his times, “sodomite,” murdered in 1593, at just twenty-nine...
1 month ago

Thomas Kyd may have delighted Elizabethan audiences, but he still wasn’t a patch on Shakespeare

The Spectator
The biggest blockbuster hit of the Elizabethan theatre was not by William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe or Ben Jonson.
17 hours ago

How ‘Lightborne’ explores the mystery of Christopher Marlowe’s murder

Orange County Register
Hesse Phillips is the author of the debut novel, “Lightborne,” about the final days of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.
4 weeks ago

Christopher Marlowe: Canterbury to screen playwright's works

BBC
The complete theatrical works of 16th Century playwright Christopher Marlowe have been filmed in what is being described as a remarkable world first.
5 months ago

Christopher Marlowe - Plays, Poetry, Influence

Britannica
Christopher Marlowe - Plays, Poetry, Influence: In the earliest of Marlowe's plays, the two-part Tamburlaine the Great (c.
3 weeks ago

Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus may have been co-written by forgotten dramatist

The Guardian
Exclusive: Scholar names Henry Porter as likely co-author of 1604 play after linguistic clues in his surviving work.
2 months ago

Christopher Marlowe was as great a poet as Shakespeare. So why do we neglect him?

The Telegraph
Christopher Marlowe is impossible to tame. His lurid life, which probably included time as a government spy and ended in his violent death...
5 months ago

The problem with new claims that Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was co-written by a forgotten dramatist

The Conversation
It's long been suspected the original play was not written by Marlowe alone. But new research leaves us no closer to solving this mystery.
2 months ago

Films of the complete theatrical works of Christopher Marlowe to be released to mark 460th birthday

University of Birmingham
The Marlowe Sessions will premiere from 16 August to commemorate the 460th anniversary of the “godfather of blank verse's” birth.
4 months ago

About the play | Edward II

Royal Shakespeare Company | RSC
When the new King Edward II insists on ruling with the man he loves by his side, conspiracy and civil war threaten the very existence of the monarchy.
6 months ago