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The devil's music.(Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy)(Book review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20060501
Author:Propson, David

Park Honan Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. Oxford University Press, 4-40 pages, $32.50

The twentieth century was a good time to be a Marlovian. When John Ingram, in 1904, published the first full-length biography of Christopher Marlowe (aka Morley, Marley, or Marlin), he did not even know the name of the man's killer. Not until twenty years later did Leslie Hotson's Death of Christopher Marlowe make public the actual coroner's inquest describing the death of the poet at Deptford Strand on May 30, 1593. Hotson thought he had provided "the authoritative answer to the riddle of ...

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