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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Marlowe takes Will to an occult ritual to try to achieve this effect, hoping it will inspire him or allow him to glimpse hell. It goes about as well as you would expect.
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Marlowe takes Will to an [[spoiler: occult ritual ritual]] to try to achieve this effect, hoping it will inspire him or allow him to glimpse hell. It goes about as well as you would expect.
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Marlowe takes Will to an occult ritual to try to achieve this effect, hoping it will inspire him or allow him to glimpse hell. It goes about as well as you would expect.
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* AsYouKnow: During the show's first torture scene, Topcliffe and his captive make sure to remind themselves about England's Catholic vs. Protestant issue, just in case they'd forgotten.
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* LoveObstructingParents: The Burbages, for understandable reasons.
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* LeavingYouToFindMyself: [[spoiler: Alice during the last few minutes of the finale.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The writers seem very fond of the whole "hung then disemboweled while still alive" thing. All in the name of historical accuracy, of course.
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* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Richard's reason for not pursuing a relationship with Molly.
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* ConvertingForLove: Inverted in a pretty interesting way-- [[spoiler: Alice converts to Catholicism only after Will spurns her and leaves her heartbroken.]]
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* HellSeeker: Marlowe, in the most literal way possible.
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* IllegalReligion: A major plot point.
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** Father Southwell is an example of a somewhat milder version of this trope.
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* TheFundamentalist: Topcliffe, without a doubt. The show hints that he may be HidingBehindReligion as well in order to justify his sadistic love of torture.
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* BeingGoodSucks: Will tries to be a good playwright, a good husband, a good father, a good Catholic, a good friend, and a good lover--all at once. It usually ends very badly.
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* BeingGoodSucks: Will tries to be a good playwright, a good husband, a good father, a good Catholic, a good friend, and a good lover--all at once. It usually ends very badly.badly for everyone involved.
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* BeingGoodSucks: Will tries to be a good playwright, a good husband, a good father, a good Catholic, a good friend, and a good lover--all at once. It usually ends very badly.
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* WritersBlockMontage: Kit has considerable trouble inspiring DoctorFaustus out of himself.
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* WritersBlockMontage: Kit has considerable trouble inspiring DoctorFaustus ''DoctorFaustus'' out of himself.
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* ExactWords: Topcliffe never tortured [[spoiler: Baxter]], oh no--he did but set him against a wall, that's all. Bonus points for the fact that this line is something that real-life Richard Topcliffe actually said.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Topcliffe's family is brought in for this very purpose.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Topcliffe is disgraced and the theater is back in business, but Alice flees the country with Southwell--effectively ending her romance with Will.]]
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* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Will's Catholicism leads to [[spoiler: Baxter's death and Alice's torture, while he gets off (mostly) scot-free.]] Understandably, the Burbages aren't very happy about this.
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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Admiration and envy color Will and Marlowe's interactions -- each playwright (seemingly) has something the other desires.
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* CreatorBreakdown: [[spoiler: Marlowe]] goes through an epic one. He eventually [[CreatorRecovery recovers]].
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* TheMuse: [[spoiler: Alice for Will, Emerson for Marlowe.]]
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Obviously.
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Baxter, who spends the first episode sneeringly trying to one-up Will as a playwright, dies because Marlowe considers him to be the "lesser of two poets."]]
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* DarkIsEvil: Heavily invoked with Topcliffe and his evil lair. Interestingly contrasted with the "brightness" that the show tends to associate with Catholicism.
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* CreepyChild: Invoked in the scene where Presto [[spoiler: burns down Burbage's theater.]]
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* CodeName: "Mr. Cotton" for Father Southwell, which is historically accurate to boot.
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* BetaCouple: Richard and Molly, though they haven't officially gotten together yet.
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* YouAreWorthHell: [[spoiler: Marlowe to his lover, who he simply calls "my king".]]
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Topcliffe makes one to [[spoiler: Will: either he helps Topcliffe write an anti-Catholic play to combat Father Southwell, or Will's family becomes a target.]]
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* EasyEvangelism: Father Southwell manages to convert [[spoiler: Alice]] to Catholicism rather easily considering the fact that English Catholics were illegal at the time and given traitors' deaths, and [[spoiler: especially since Alice had previously criticized Will quite sharply for getting involved in the movement.]]
