{"product_id":"who-killed-kit-marlowe-a-contract-to-murder-in-elizabethan-england-paperback","title":"Who Killed Kit Marlowe?: A Contract to Murder in Elizabethan England - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTaliesin Trow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eM. J. Trow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKit Marlowe was the bad boy of Elizabethan drama. His 'mighty line' of iambic pentameter transformed the miracle plays of the Middle Ages into modern drama and he paved the way for Shakespeare and a dozen other greats who stole his metre and his ideas. When he died, stabbed through the eye in what appeared to be a tavern brawl in Deptford in May 1593, he was only 29 and many people believed that he had met his just deserts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Marlowe's death was not the result of a brawl. And it did not take place in a tavern. The facts tell a different story, one involving intrigue, espionage, alchemy and the highest in the land. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn the son of a shoemaker in Canterbury, Marlowe read Theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and was destined for a career in Elizabeth I's new Church of England. But in 1583, he moved to London and wrote dazzling new plays like \u003ci\u003eDido, Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, the Jew of Malta\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the 'Muse's darling', 'all fire and air' and the crowds flocked to his dramas at the Curtain, the Theatre and the Rose. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut even before he left Cambridge, Kit Marlowe was recruited into the dangerous and murky world of espionage, perhaps by Nicholas Faunt, secretary to the queen's spymaster, Francis Walsingham. The religious world was split between Catholic and Protestant and there was a price on the queen's head - the pope himself had ordered the assassination of the English whore, the Jezebel, who had betrayed Catholicism. Walsingham's efforts and those of 'intelligencers' like Marlowe, were all designed to keep the queen and her country safe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarlowe was a maverick, a whistle-blower, with outspoken views on religion, the government for which he worked and he was critical of the norms of behaviour. Almost certainly homosexual, at a time when that meant execution, he claimed that Christ had a homosexual relationship with John the Baptist. Or did he? Was all that merely propaganda, invented by the ever-growing list of enemies building up by 1593? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a different interpretation to the death in Deptford. Marlowe knew too much about the Privy Council, the gang of four who effectively ran England under the queen. He openly defied them in his last plays -\u003ci\u003e the Massacre at Paris\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEdward II\u003c\/i\u003e. And they, in turn, were keen to destroy him - 'His mouth must be stopped' - and stopped it was by a trio of agents operating at the highest level. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe brutal murder of a young playwright at the peak of his powers has intrigued and captivated for over 400 years. This compelling journey through the evidence allows us to know, for the first time, who killed him.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49174571876504,"sku":"9781913762094","price":24.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/bW5kaGxvNm9qVWNaMjBQR05UUkRidz09.webp?v=1779965634","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobooks.myshopify.com\/products\/who-killed-kit-marlowe-a-contract-to-murder-in-elizabethan-england-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}