Какой же примечательный тип этот Кит Марлоу. Сказать, что я под впечатлением - это ничего не сказать.
хотя вот переводить с английского мне всё-таки леньthe most curious bits:Разнообразие домыслов и характеристик
As with other writers of the period, such as Shakespeare, little is known about Marlowe. Most of the evidence is legal records and other official documents that tell us little about him. This has not stopped writers of both fiction and non-fiction from speculating about his activities and character. Marlowe has often been regarded as a spy, a brawler, a heretic, and a homosexual, as well as a "magician", "duellist", "tobacco-user", "counterfeiter", and "rakehell". The evidence for most of these claims is slight. The bare facts of Marlowe's life have been embellished by many writers into colourful, and often fanciful, narratives of the Elizabethan underworld.Восхищение писателей-современников
читать дальшеWhatever the particular focus of modern critics, biographers and novelists, for his contemporaries in the literary world, Marlowe was above all an admired and influential artist. Within weeks of his death, George Peele remembered him as "Marley, the Muses' darling"; and Ben Jonson wrote of "Marlowe's mighty line". Thomas Nashe wrote warmly of his friend, "poor deceased Kit Marlowe". So too did the publisher Edward Blount, in the dedication of "Hero and Leander" to Sir Thomas Walsingham.Кхм, "темы" в творчестве
честно говоря, не знала, что в Елизаветинской Англии было модно, подражая античной литературе, писать о мужской любвичитать дальшеThe mere inclusion of same-sex love themes in Marlowe's works has been seen as signifying a biographical interest...Marlowe accords these themes more prominence than almost any other writer. In conjunction with the rumours preserved in the historical record, the prominence of homosexual themes in Marlowe's work has led, especially in the twentieth century, to a presumption of interest in same-sex love (although not necessarily of homosexual activity).Шпионская деятельность "для короны" в целом, как и дружба с Томасом Уолсингемом, который по слухам вызволял Марлоу, когда того арестовывали по обвинению в фальшивомонетничестве и ереси (ему же посвящена пьеса Марлоу "Hero and Leander"
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читать дальшеMarlowe was not in London, but was staying with Thomas Walsingham, the cousin of the late Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's principal secretary in the 1580s and a man deeply involved in state espionage.Атеизм, временами переходящий в католицизм и обратно - под настроение) И то, и другое наказуемо в Англии того времени
читать дальшеMarlowe attended The King's School, Canterbury (where a house is now named after him) and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge on a scholarship and received his bachelor of arts degree in 1584. In 1587 the university hesitated to award him his master's degree because of a rumour that he had converted to Roman Catholicism and intended to go to the English college at Rheims to prepare for the priesthood.Непонятная смерть Марлоу, ну или её имитация. Так и непонятно, что. Но многие сходятся, что оное действо было организовано всё тем же Уолсингемом.
Ах да, ещё есть теория, что после поддельной смерти, Марлоу печатался под псевдонимом "Шекспир")
читать дальшеGiven the murky inconsistencies concerning the account of Marlowe's death, an ongoing conspiracy theory has arisen centred on the notion that Marlowe may have faked his death and then continued to write under the assumed name of William Shakespeare. подробнее на Википедииen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe