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In August 1819 an anonymous writer for The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal suggested that 'Christopher Marlowe' might be a pseudonym assumed for a time by Shakespeare, [12] and this idea was developed further in the same journal in September 1820, [13] noting how Shakespeare "disappears from all biographical research just at the moment when Marlowe first comes on the stage; and who re ...
A play titled The School of Night, by Peter Whelan, dealing with the relationship between Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place theatre in November 1992. [15]
Marlowe is a character played by Jim Howick in the 2015 comedy Bill. [37] Marlowe (played by Jamie Campbell-Bower) is a main character in the 2017 TNT series Will. [38] Marlowe (played by Tim Downie) is a main character in Ben Elton's Shakespeare-sitcom Upstart Crow (2016). In this series, Shakespeare writes Marlowe's plays for him, providing ...
Marlowe was christened at St George's Church, Canterbury.The tower, shown here, is all that survived destruction during the Baedeker air raids of 1942.. Christopher Marlowe, the second of nine children, and oldest child after the death of his sister Mary in 1568, was born to Canterbury shoemaker John Marlowe and his wife Katherine, daughter of William Arthur of Dover. [8]
As early as 1820 it had been suggested that, because of their "habitual resemblance of style", Shakespeare had in fact written the works of the poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe, [61] but it was not until 1895 that this theory was reversed, and Marlowe himself proposed as the most likely author of the Shakespeare canon, with a serious ...
Due to Marlowe's relatively small dramatic output as compared with Shakespeare, it's unlikely that he would have been the subject of Shakespeare's sonnets, i.e. considered a serious rival. By the time Shakespeare began his works Marlowe was a well-established playwright but the two had a very important artistic relationship.
Little is known of Shakespeare's personal life, and some anti-Stratfordians take this as circumstantial evidence against his authorship. [37] Further, the lack of biographical information has sometimes been taken as an indication of an organised attempt by government officials to expunge all traces of Shakespeare, including perhaps his school records, to conceal the true author's identity.
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