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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990918
Author:David Benedict

It's official: Christopher Marlowe is the next best thing to Shakespeare.

Three rival biopics were announced last year, all of which purport to tell the true story of the author of Dr Faustus and Edward II, the playwright and possible spy who had a rather longer dalliance with "youthful indiscretion" than Michael Portillo. One of these films boasted Rufus Sewell as the main man and another announced its candidacy by pointing out that it was based on The Reckoning, the engrossing novel about Marlowe by Charles Nicholl.

Meantime, back in the theatre, Noel Greig wrote The Death of Christopher ...

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