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Rebels with a cause.(On Poetry)(Book Review)

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From: The New Leader
Date: 20041101
Author:Pettingell, Phoebe

ON MAY 30, 1593--a year before the Spanish Armada attacked England the brilliant 29-year-old poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe met with three men for dinner at the home of the widow Eleanor Bull in London. All four guests were connected with the Elizabethan world of espionage, and the hostess kept up associations with a number of important courtiers surrounding Queen Elizabeth I. After the meal a fight broke out, and Marlowe fell dead with a dagger thrust through his eye socket. Though evidence suggested otherwise, the coroner ruled that the killer had acted in self-defense. ...

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