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The Marlowe papers, a novel, Ros Barber

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-441)

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The Marlowe papers

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Ros Barber

a novel

"You're the author of the greatest plays of all time. But nobody knows. And if it gets out, you're dead. On May 30, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now Christopher Marlowe reveals the truth: that his "death" was an elaborate ruse to avoid a conviction of heresy; that he was spirited across the English Channel to live on in lonely exile; that he continued to write plays and poetry, hiding behind the name of a colorless man from Stratford--one William Shakespeare. With the grip of a thriller and the emotional force of a sonnet, this remarkable novel in verse gives voice to a man who was brilliant, passionate, and mercurial. A cobbler's son who counted nobles among his friends, a spy in the Queen's service, a fickle lover and a declared religious skeptic, Christopher Marlowe always courted trouble. Memoir, love letter, confession, and settling of accounts, The Marlowe Papers brings Christopher Marlowe and his era to vivid life"--, Provided by publisher"On May 30, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now Christopher Marlowe reveals the truth: that his "death" was an elaborate ruse to avoid a conviction of heresy; that he was spirited across the English Channel to live on in lonely exile; that he continued to write plays and poetry, hiding behind the name of a colorless man from Stratford--one William Shakespeare. With the grip of a thriller and the emotional force of a sonnet, this remarkable novel in verse gives voice to a man who was brilliant, passionate and mercurial. A cobbler's son who counted nobles among his friends, a spy in the Queen's service, a fickle lover and a declared religious skeptic, Christopher Marlowe always courted trouble. Memoir, love letter, confession, and settling of accounts, The Marlowe Papers brings Christopher Marlowe and his era to vivid life"--, Provided by publisher

Death's a great disguiser -- Decipherers -- Captain silence -- Non-correspondent -- The shape of silence -- The trunk -- Forge -- Conjurors -- Tom Watson -- Tamburlaine the Great -- The low countries -- Armada year -- Middelburg -- Tamburlaine the Second -- Hotspur's descendant -- Northumberland's subject -- First rendezvous -- The first heir of my invention -- The Jew of Malta -- Lurch -- That men should put an enemy in their mouths -- The university men -- The pact of Faustus -- The tutor -- Small beerSoliloquy -- The hog lane affray -- Envoi -- Limbo -- Poole the prisoner -- A twin -- Necessity -- The school of night -- The banishment of Kent -- Tobacco and booze -- Copy of my letter to Poley -- How do I start this? Let me try again -- Burying the moor -- Southampton -- Arbella -- Alpine letter -- Watson's verse-comment on my flushing assignment -- Poisoning the well -- Danger is in words -- Flushing -- Fishers -- A resurrection -- A counterfeit procession -- The fatal labyrinth of misbelief -- BEtrayed -- Returned to the Lord treasurerCollaboration -- The school of atheism -- Holywell street -- A groatsworth of wit -- Dismissed -- The cobbler's son -- Re:spite -- A fellow of infinite jest -- Scadbury -- A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint -- The plot -- Whitgift -- 'Fly, flye, and never returne' -- Kyd's tragedy -- Smoke and fire -- By any other name -- Drakes -- My being -- My afterlives -- A passport to return -- Deptford strand -- I forget the name of the village -- The goblet -- In a minute there are many days -- The hope -- Sickening -- Straits -- Montanus -- Bishopsgate street -- Madame Le DouxThe theatre -- Interval -- A change of address -- How Richard II followed Richard III -- Burley on the hill -- Correspondent -- Nothing like the sun -- The game -- Petit -- Will Hall -- My true love sent to me -- Stopped -- Dogs -- Friend -- Hal -- Your fool -- The authors of Shakespeare -- Mr Disorder -- Revenge theory -- So -- In disgrace with fortune and men's eyes -- Essex house -- The Earl of Essex -- Small Gods -- Merry wives -- In the theatre of god's judgments -- Who steals my purse steals trash -- Slander -- A kit may look at a kingA rose -- Chapman's curse -- Bare ruined choirs -- Knives -- Concerning the English -- Orsino's castle, Bracciano -- Ghost -- The author of Hamlet -- In praise of the red herring -- Sojourn -- T.T. & W.H. -- Twelfth Night -- An execution -- William Peter -- Elsinore -- I lie with him -- Deliverance -- More sinned against than sinning -- Liz -- Iago -- A never writer to an ever reader. News -- The mermaid club -- Exit stage left