Books Examining the Events in Deptford
*The Death of Christopher Marlowe
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- Published: The Nonesuch Press / Harvard UP 1925; Kessinger Reproduction 2003
- Details: Hard cover. 76pp. [Contents List]
- ISBN: 0766129284 (Kessinger Reproduction)
- Summary: Reveals remarkable discovery of the Coroner's Inquisition report on Marlowe's death. First issue included a fold-out reproduction of the Inquisition Report.
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The Murder of the Man Who Was Shakespeare
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- Published: Max Parrish, London, 1955.
- Details: Hard cover. 256pp. [Hoffman's Introduction]
- ASIN: B0000CJBNC
- Summary: Hoffman was the first to posit both that Marlowe faked his own death at Deptford, and also that he then went on to write the works attributed to Shakespeare whilst exiled in Italy.
- Reviews: Time Magazine; Wikipedia Summary.
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*The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
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- Published: Jonathan Cape 1992; Vintage 2002.
- Details: Paperback. 432pp.
- ISBN: 0099437473
- Summary: A detailed and well researched biography, culminating in Nicholl's own theory on Marlowe's death.
- Reviews: National Review.
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Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines:
Journeys Through the Elizabethan Underworld
- Author: Roy Kendall
- Published: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press US, (distr. Associated University Press) 2004.
- Details: Hard cover. 456pp.
- ISBN: 0838639747
- Reviews: Fairleigh Dickinson University.
- Summary: Examines the activities and literary output of Marlowe in the years before Deptford, in relation to his association with Baines. Includes a biography of Baines.
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*The Story That The Sonnets Tell
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- Published: Adam Hart 1995
- Details: Hard cover. 585pp.
- ISBN: 1897763018
- Summary: Puts forward the theory that Marlowe's death at Deptford was faked, and his subsequent exile is the real story that the Sonnets tell.
- Reviews: Marlowe Society
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The Assassination of Christopher Marlowe
- Author: S.A.Tannenbaum
- Published: New York (Privately, 1928); English Studies 11; 152-3 Amsterdam 1929.
- Summary: Puts forward the political conspiracy theory that Marlowe was assassinated by the government spy service.
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- * Recommended as indispensible reading.