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Nicholl: The Reckoning (review)

Our victim was brash, talented, and stabbed just above the eye before his 30th birthday …

BH the reckoning

Charles Nicholl, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (Vintage:  London, 2002)

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‘I am not trying to argue that Marlowe’s death has to have a meaning.  My reading tends only to a more complex kind of meaninglessness than that of a ‘tavern brawl’.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Boar's Head, EastcheapPosted on August 7, 2018August 6, 2018Categories Bookshelf, Christopher Marlowe, Contextual Information, Key Stage 5, Politics Then and Now, Richard II, Shakespeare, William ShakespeareTags Babington Plot, David Riggs, Francis Walsingham, Frazier Ingram, John Le Carré, Mary Queen of Scots, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Nashe1 Comment on Nicholl: The Reckoning (review)

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