Religion loomed large in the life of Christopher Marlowe. Born under the shadow of Canterbury Cathedral, even Marlowe’s scholarship to Cambridge came with protestant strings attached. In return for ...

MR. JOHN BAKELESS, in Christopher Marlowe, the Man in His Time, has written a lively account of his subject. He has spent eighteen years in research and investigation, and he now gives us a full ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This book cover image released by Norton shows "Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest ...

“If Christopher Marlowe were alive today, he would’ve painted the town red. What a bad bitch!” howls Ncuti Gatwa. He’s speaking via phone from London, describing the Elizabethan playwright and ...

The last full biography of Christopher Marlowe (1564–93) was Park Honan’s Christopher Marlowe, Poet and Spy, published in 2005. On the evidence of Stephen Greenblatt’s Dark Renaissance, it would seem ...

“Star Wars” producer Gary Kurtz and British crime film director Greg Hall are teaming on an untitled feature film about iconic British poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe. Kurtz and Hall announced ...

EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Who and Barbie’s Ncuti Gatwa and A Discovery of Witches and Killing Eve’s Edward Bluemel are headed straight into London’s West End for the European premiere of Liz Duffy Adams’ ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released the first rehearsal images from “Born With Teeth,” offering a glimpse of Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel as Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare ...

Christopher Marlowe (familiarly known as Kit), was, next to Shakespeare, the greatest poet and playwright of his day. He was born in February 1564 (two months before Shakespeare) and was killed in May ...

Hesse Phillips is the author of the debut novel, “Lightborne,” about the final days of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Raised in Pennsylvania and now living in Spain, they have an ...