Summary: Tries to counterbalance “the tendency toward disproportionate sensationalism”, as Kuriyama goes back to the original documents and provides where appropriate her own translations.
Summary: Very detailed biography posits some new information about Marlowe “masterfully fused from increments of factual evidence” which are “corroborated by surprising steganographic messages” found by Society member Ballantine in Marlowe’s work. [Read Excerpt]
Summary: Not in fact a Marlowe biography, nor much to do directly with our playwright. Rather concerns the likes of Rupert Brook and Virginia Woolf, their association with the Cambridge Marlowe (Dramatic) Society, and that organisation’s influence on subsequent RSC performances.
Summary: Eccles’ detective work at the PRO uncovered documents relating to Marlowe’s arrest/pardon for the Hog Lane affray with Bradley in 1589, and a brush with the law in 1592.
Contents: I. New Light on Marlowe; II. In Newgate; III. William Bradley; IV. Marlowe’s Sureties; V. Marlowe & the Constables; VI. Norton Folgate; VII. Douai; VIII. The Wise Man of St. Helens; IX. A Dedication by Marlowe.
Summary: A comprehensive study from both the biographical and the critical angles, building on the then recent documentary discoveries by Hotson, Eccles, Seaton and de Kalb.
