Christopher Marlowe in fiction

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593),[1] English playwright and poet,[2] has appeared in works of fiction since the nineteenth century. He was a contemporary of William Shakespeare,[3] and has been suggested as an alternative author of Shakespeare's works, an idea not accepted in mainstream scholarship.[4] Marlowe, alleged to have been a government spy and frequently claimed to have been homosexual, was killed in 1593.[3]

Anonymous 16th century portrait, suggested to be Christopher Marlowe

Overview

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Marlowe first appeared as a literary figure in 1825 in the first part of Ludwig Tieck's novella Dichterleben [de]. In it, Tieck addresses, among other things, the conflict between Romanticism, represented by Shakespeare, and Sturm und Drang, represented by Marlowe.[5] The opposite view was held by Richard Henry Horne, in whose 1837 drama The Death of Marlowe Marlowe first appeared as a fictional character in English literature. Horne's Marlowe is Romanticism personified.[6] Although numerous authors have since had Marlowe appear in a wide variety of literary genres, this has been done with astonishing unimaginativeness. He is usually the homosexual outsider who rebels against the establishment and fits perfectly into the Elizabethan theatre world, which is described as a gathering place for alternative lifestyles.[7]

Books

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Marlowe kills Francis Frazer, illustration from It was Marlowe

In The Marlen of Prague: Christopher Marlowe and the City of Gold (2022), a historical fantasy by Angeli Primlani, Marlowe appears as one of the Queen's mages who casts the Armada Spell and changes the fabric of reality itself.[28]

Theater, film and television

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Tom Hughes portrayed Marlowe in 2020

Radio

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  • Christopher Marlowe, a re-enactment of Marlowe's life and death starring Stan Geverts as Marlowe, was broadcast on the Municipal Broadcasting System on October 11, 1950.[41]
  • The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries, written by Ged Parsons and starring Dominic Jephcott as Marlowe, was a four-episode BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast in 2007.[42][43]
  • Michael Butt's radio play Unauthorized History: The Killing was first broadcast as part of the Afternoon Drama series on BBC Radio 4 on 17 August 2010.[44][45]
  • A three-part dramatization of Charles Nicholl's book The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, adapted by Mike Walker and directed by Sasha Yevtushenko with the author as presenter and Chris Lew Kum Hoi as Marlowe, was broadcast in May 2022 on BBC Radio 4.[46]

References

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  6. ^ Dabbs, Thomas W. (1991). Reforming marlowe : the nineteenth-century canonization of the renaissance dramatist. Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ Press. ISBN 1-61148-066-3. OCLC 948400882.
  7. ^ Tucker, Kenneth (1995). "Dead Men in Deptford: Recent Lives and Deaths of Christopher Marlowe". Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama. 34: 111–124.
  8. ^ Nicholl, Charles (2006). "The case for Marlowe", in Wells, Stanley and Edmondson, Paul (eds.) Shakespeare Beyond Doubt. Cambridge University Press, pp.30–32
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  10. ^ Harraway, Clare (22 November 2017). Re-citing Marlowe: Approaches to the Drama: Approaches to the Drama. Routledge. ISBN 9781351790550. Retrieved 30 July 2018 – via Google Books.
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