Do I need another Substack you ask? Well yes. I do. It’s time we talked about Kit Marlowe. Regularly. Sensibly. I have a lot of things to share that I’ve been sitting on, and I know there’s a whole bunch of people interested in Marlowe who might be interested in gathering here.
If you don’t know who I am, I’m a Marlowe researcher of nearly twenty years’ standing, with a bunch of peer-reviewed articles on Marlowe, and author of a prizewinning Marlowe biofiction, The Marlowe Papers. Earlier this year, I was made Patron of the Marlowe Society. I’m three-times winner of the Annual Calvin & Rose G Hoffman Award for a distinguished work on Christopher Marlowe.
My main focus here will be literary-historical: to re-examine the life of Marlowe (from approx 6 February 1964 to 30 May 1593) and, from time to time, the circumstances of his apparently violent death in Deptford, at the age of 29. Mostly, though, the life. Because I think he has suffered approximately 430 years of slander, and it is time to set the record straight.
I hope you will join me.
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