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Marlowe's Lives

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From: Michigan Quarterly Review
Date: 20030701
Author:Meyers, Jeffrey

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Christopher Marlowe's murder, as Anne Sexton said of Plath's suicide, was a good career move. Many writers have died young: Sir Philip Sidney of battle wounds and Wilfred Owen in battle, Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov in duels, the Earl of Surrey on the scaffold and Shelley from drowning, Lord Byron and Rupert Brooke from a fever, Emily Bronte and Katherine Mansfield from tuberculosis, Edgar Allan Poe and Dylan Thomas from alcoholism, Thomas Chatterton and Hart Crane from suicide. But apart from the equally eccentric and defiant homosexual playwright Joe Orton, battered to death by ...

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