fajrdrako | Indulging in Marlowe again...

I read another book about Christopher Marlowe, In Search of Christopher Marlowe: A Pictorial Study by A.D. Wright and Virginia F. Stern.

The information was standard. The pictures were cool: nice to see what all the sites I'd been reading about in all the biographies looked like.

The only points of interest I noticed were a page-and-a-half rant on the part of the author about how Shakespeare is lauded and applauded by the whole world, but the brilliant and wonderful Marlowe is barely a footnote to literary history - a situation the author clearly finds most unfair. He then goes on, in his section on Marlowe's murder, to suggest as a far-flung and fantastical possibility that maybe he didn't die after all- there being so many anomalies and oddities in the story of his death - and just maybe his "close friend" Tom Walsingham faked the death and spirited him away, safe and alive.

He doesn't say that maybe Marlowe returned under the name of William Shakespeare, but you can tell the thought its there, on the tip of his pen.