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Virtuosity killed the Kit

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20010824
Author:NEIL NORMAN

Three films and two plays are reviving interest in the life and death of Christopher Marlowe, says Neil Norman

CHRISTOPHER Marlowe was the Elizabethan equivalent of James Dean. He lived fast, died young and - with the possible exception of a stiletto through an eyeball - left a beautiful corpse.

One more thing. He left behind a handful of great plays. The life and death of Kit Marlowe contains enough incendiary material to fuel the imaginations of a battalion of modern commentators, playwrights and authors.

Thus it is that we are about to be plunged once more into the Summer of Marlowe. Of ...

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