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Marlowe's death: an intriguing theory

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19940613
Author:Michael Kenney, Globe Staff

THE RECKONING

The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

By Charles Nicholl

Harcourt Brace, 413 pp., illustrated, $24.95.

In the long accepted -- and surprisingly still accepted -- account of the matter, Christopher Marlowe died in a tavern brawl. He was 29, already the author of enough great plays -- "Tamburlaine the Great," "The Jew of Malta," "Doctor Faustus" -- for a lifetime. But given his reputation as "a roaring boy," a dissolute homosexual much given to carousing in the taverns of Elizabethan London, it would have been a tragic, but not entirely unexpected end.

Except that it ...

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