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** Averted in ''Series/UpstartCrow'' where Marlowe isn’t a writer at all, he’s just Shakespeare’s more glamorous friend, and Shakespeare writes ''Marlowe’s'' plays to give him cover for his work for the government. Also played for laughs, as it’s implies that Shakespeare gives Marlowe his more crap plays: nobody likes ''The Jew of Malta'' because Shakespeare wrote it to cash in on the fashion for anti-Semitism, so he hands it off to Marlowe instead, and at the end of the episode he’s idly speculating about writing a play featuring a less totally unpleasant Jewish main character.
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** Marlowe was labelled an atheist in the Elizabethan Age. But this was done by [[UnreliableNarrator his enemies]] and atheism did not have the same sense as it would to a modern audience (it meant more like "heretic"). Marlowe's plays are ambivalent about religion -- although the Protestant English regarded Catholicism, Islam and Judaism as AcceptableTargets and Marlowe does stick to the party line in that regard.
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** Marlowe was labelled an atheist in the Elizabethan Age. But this was done by [[UnreliableNarrator his enemies]] and atheism did not have the same sense as it would to a modern audience (it meant more like "heretic"). Marlowe's plays are ambivalent about religion -- although the Protestant English regarded Catholicism, Islam and Judaism as AcceptableTargets targets of derision and Marlowe does stick to the party line in that regard.
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Marlowe's death in what was considered a BarBrawl at Deptford was long the source of suspicion and rumor. In the 20th Century, a researcher discovered the original coroner's report and while he dismissed foul play, he did note that Marlowe spent his final day in the company of known underworld types linked to Thomas Walsingham, a relative of Queen Elizabeth's hatchet-man Sir Francis Walsingham. This has fed many UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories about Marlowe and the circumstances of his death. There are still others who argue that Marlowe faked his death and continued writing under the pseudonym of... Creator/WilliamShakespeare. This is far from being the most popular theory even among aficionados of the Shakespearean authorship theory.
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Marlowe's death in what was considered a BarBrawl at Deptford was long the source of suspicion and rumor. In the 20th Century, a researcher discovered the original coroner's report and while he dismissed foul play, he did note that Marlowe spent his final day in the company of known underworld types linked to Thomas Walsingham, a relative of Queen Elizabeth's hatchet-man Sir Francis Walsingham. This has fed many UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories conspiracy theories about Marlowe and the circumstances of his death. There are still others who argue that Marlowe faked his death and continued writing under the pseudonym of... Creator/WilliamShakespeare. This is far from being the most popular theory even among aficionados of the Shakespearean authorship theory.
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* ''Theatre/TheMassacreAtParis''
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Marlowe has also been credited with ''Theatre/LustsDominion'' and ''Theatre/ArdenOfFaversham'', but as of 2023 both of these claims are largely refuted by experts.
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** Marlowe was labelled an atheist in the Elizabethan Age. But this was done by [[UnreliableNarrator his enemies]] and atheism did not have the same sense as it would to a modern audience (it meant more like "heretic"). In any case, mocking Catholicism, Islam and Judaism was AcceptableTargets for the Protestant English and Marlowe sticks to the party line in that regard. Nevertheless, Marlowe's plays are ambivalent about religion.
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** Marlowe was labelled an atheist in the Elizabethan Age. But this was done by [[UnreliableNarrator his enemies]] and atheism did not have the same sense as it would to a modern audience (it meant more like "heretic"). In any case, mocking Catholicism, Islam and Judaism was AcceptableTargets for the Protestant English and Marlowe sticks to the party line in that regard. Nevertheless, Marlowe's plays are ambivalent about religion.religion -- although the Protestant English regarded Catholicism, Islam and Judaism as AcceptableTargets and Marlowe does stick to the party line in that regard.
