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Imagining Shakespeare and Marlowe as collaborators
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Imagining Shakespeare and Marlowe as collaborators

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Following the extraordinary success of Tamburlaine, might the theatrical impresario Philip Henslowe have brought Marlowe together with Shakespeare to write about the Wars of the Roses? An excerpt from Dark Renaissance by Stephen Greenblatt.

Excerpt: 'A Fine Madness: A Christopher Marlowe Murder Mystery' by Alan Judd
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Excerpt: 'A Fine Madness: A Christopher Marlowe Murder Mystery' by Alan Judd

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Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe may not be as famous as his contemporary William Shakespeare, but his death at age 29 was far more dramatic — an argument over a bill that led to a stabbing, with the killer successfully pleading…