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Danger down in Deptford The murder of Christopher Marlowe continues to fuel conspiracy theories, says Jonathan Bate

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20051023
Author:Jonathan Bate

IN THE summer of 1593, the big issue on the streets of London was what to do about asylum-seekers. The city was being flooded with refugees from the religious wars in the Netherlands. Young apprentices, always volatile, were threatening direct action, complaining that immigrants were taking English jobs. One night towards the end of May, abusive graffiti appeared on the door of the Dutch church in the East End over the signature "Tamburlaine'', the name of the play that a few years earlier had established Christopher Marlowe as the enfant terrible of the public theatre.

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