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The Marlowe Papers

Ros Barber (Goodreads Author)

3.68 · Rating details · 481 ratings · 113 reviews

On May 30th, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now let Christopher Marlowe tell you the truth: that his 'death' was an elaborate ruse to avoid his being hanged for heresy; that he was spirited across the channel to live on in lonely exile, longing for his true love and pining for the damp s ...more

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Feb 20, 2013 Margaret rated it liked it

Recommends it for: Readers who care about Kit Marlowe

Recommended to Margaret by: Saw a review in the NYTimes

“The Review”

Picture this: a novel written in verse,
a modern imagining in Marlowe’s
mighty line, of a life lived after a
falsified death. Check Wikipedia;
Christopher Marlowe died, stabbed in the eye,
in a reckoning over a bill
in 1593, so it’s said. But
wait, there’s more to this story. The others
with him in that house in Deptford
were hardly model citizens: spies,
loan sharks, con-men. And, Christopher Marlowe
had some issues of his own. Arrested
for heresy and suspected as a
government spy, he seeme ...more

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Feb 23, 2013 Chaitra rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, poetry, british-literature, novel-in-verse

To begin with, I was very gung-ho about reading a novel in verse. I also thought that I should raise the book's rating for that purpose. But, it's a new experience for me, sure, but it isn't for Barber. And in any case I'm no good at rating poetry. I mean, I also think that the verse form did this tale a disservice. I'll explain.

But first, the Shakespeare authorship question. I've read and enjoyed several plays by Shakespeare without ever wondering who it's author was. It is enough for me that t To begin with, I was very gung-ho about reading a novel in verse. I also thought that I should raise the book's rating for that purpose. But, it's a new experience for me, sure, but it isn't for Barber. And in any case I'm no good at rating poetry. I mean, I also think that the verse form did this tale a disservice. I'll explain.

But first, the Shakespeare authorship question. I've read and enjoyed several plays by Shakespeare without ever wondering who it's author was. It is enough for me that they're available. But I also love conspiracy theories, so I started this book with the view to be fully converted to a Marlovian. (After already being a Baconian and Oxfordian, before converting back to Stratford. Marlowe would have been a new position for me.) Sad to say, that did not happen. Some parts of this fiction are believable, such as Marlowe's death being very convenient. But that he commissioned Shakespeare to pretend to be him and then set about with all the passion of a jealous mistress to undo him (and by extension Marlowe himself and everyone who supported his plot), is stretching my credulity. It's the same reason why I'm not an Oxfordian or a Baconian or any other thing, it's too hard for a non scholar like me. As I see it, there's much shoehorning of convenient facts and dropping unceremoniously of inconvenient ones required to support anything. Why, going by the book, is Marlowe connected to William Hall at all other than pure speculation? If anything, he's connected to Shakespeare, the man from Stratford. I'm a bad conspiracy theorist, am I not?

But, in my defense, I have nothing against the real, historical Christopher Marlowe being the author of the works of William Shakespeare. It's this book's Kit Marlowe I detest. In a 400 pages long book, 380 were given over to some quality self pity. So much so that I wanted to punch him in the face and take away his pen and paper. This is why I think verse did not work for this story - that much self pitying would not have floated in a prose book. There is no way in hell would I believe this cry baby was capable of anything - not a badass intelligencer who spent 8 (?) years in the service of the Queen, not a man who could write the comedies of Shakespeare, not anyone I would want to bother hiding and risking my own neck for (if I were Walsingham). He's ungrateful and careless and has the gall to whine and doubt the sincerity of his friends when he's the one who is doing everything but shouting from the rooftops that he's Marlowe. He also whines about how he was grievously slandered, etc. when the so called slander is all true - he blasphemed when he should have known better, against the judgment of his friends. Yep. Him I detest.

I had to laugh whenever someone called him discreet in the book, which was every so often. Just about everyone he meets recognizes him, everyone is in on this plot, and the two people who aren't he informs. Some plot. A couple of things also bothered me, why would he say in a chapter that Kit Marlowe would have never died in a tavern brawl like it was a new thing for him (Venus and Adonis and Thomas Thorpe), when he was in on the entire plot to rescue him and thus knew that that would be the reason given? And why would he go by both Louis Le Doux *and* William Hall when he's in Burley? In the book, Walsingham is confused as to which name he went by when he was in Burley for a few months at least. I also did not like the little conceit in the book that while no one would know while they were living, the Mermaid Club would leave so many clues that "intelligent" people would be able to sift through the clues when they were all dead. Yaay for the pat on the back, but considering the number of contenders there are for the Shakespeare authorship question, I think it's safe to say that that intention didn't work as well as supposed.

I probably would have been more willing support this theory if Barber's Kit Marlowe didn't keep harping on about being a cobbler's son and then go on to speak hideously of the Stratfordian's Cuntry ways and blunted wit. Book Marlowe treats Shakespeare as an usurper to the imaginary throne, not as a paid man doing as he was bid by Marlowe himself. I wish the Book Shakespeare had written Book Marlowe to back off or he would have him exposed. It's not as if anyone believed Shakespeare was the author of his works if we were to go by the book, what then had he to lose? Instead, he's strangely quiet, despite all the humiliations supposedly heaped on him in his own plays.

I'm not convinced of the Marlovian position, and I'm not convinced of the verse form although I acknowledge its effort. I found Kit Marlowe to be dour and unlikable, and since he's the only one I had to listen to for 400 long pages, I didn't like this book.

P.S. Marlin, Merlin, Marley, Morley, Marlowe all go uncommented, but a hyphenated Shake-speare is a MAJOR CLUE! ...more

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Dec 20, 2012 Jane rated it really liked it

It was intriguing proposition: a story spun around the assumption that Christopher Marlowe did not die in a tavern brawl on 30th May 1593. The assumption that another man died and Marlowe fled, fearing being charged with heresy, and lived in exile. The assumption that he continued to write with his work being published under the name of another man: William Shakespeare.

I lack the depth of knowledge to assess whether or not the tale is viable, but I can say that, to me, Ros Barber made her case It was intriguing proposition: a story spun around the assumption that Christopher Marlowe did not die in a tavern brawl on 30th May 1593. The assumption that another man died and Marlowe fled, fearing being charged with heresy, and lived in exile. The assumption that he continued to write with his work being published under the name of another man: William Shakespeare.

I lack the depth of knowledge to assess whether or not the tale is viable, but I can say that, to me, Ros Barber made her case convincing and her story compelling.

The initial proposition was made even more intriguing by the fact that it is written entirely in blank verse. I thought that it might be hard work but it really wasn’t: it read beautifully. The language is not of the period but I think it would be fair to say that it is sympathetic to the period. It feels right.

Now writing a story of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare in such a way has a particular danger. It invites comparisons by which even very fine writers would suffer. But I think that to dwell on such things would be a mistake. Because this is a book that tells a story, celebrates its subjects, and throws intriguing questions into the air. And to write it in such a way was a marvellous feat and quite clearly a labour of love.

Most of the writing is in the form of iambic pentameter, as Marlowe considers his past and faces his future. He writes, he travels, he forms new relationships, he makes covert trips back to england, and he finds himself caught up in intrigue.

I couldn’t say whether or not the voice that Ros Barber created for Marlowe was authentic, but I can say that it was engaging and that I wanted to go on listening.

From time to time there are sonnets that bring significant points into focus. I loved so many of them, and in the middle of the book when they were sparse the story’s hold weakened a little. But it didn’t let go.

After a compelling opening, telling of the flight from England, considering the consequences, and looking to the future I really didn’t want to let go. And as the story unfolded I appreciated the atmosphere, the characterisation, and the wealth of detail.

Historical figures and incidents moved through the story, adding substance, and I am quite sure that if I knew more I would have noticed much more.

What I did notice was an extraordinary web of history, intrigue and emotion. The first two were wonderful but was is the third that really, really made the story sing.

After the tale had been told I found, at the back of the book, clear notes about the history and theories that underpinned the story, and generous acknowledgment of many sources. I hadn’t refered to them along the way, because I wanted to stay as I was, caught up on the story, but I was glad they were there for me to consider afterwards.

I realised that, although I wasn’t convinced that the story had been entirely plausible, I had still been caught up. Because the story was so vivid and because its telling was so effective.
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Jun 12, 2013 Tina Cipolla rated it did not like it

Oh for the love of God.

It was a good idea. It really was. A novel whose premise is that Christopher Marlowe did not die in a bar brawl, but instead staged his death and was spirited out of the country into hiding for fear of a heresy charge; punishment for heresy at the time was death. Further, he continued writing plays under the name of, wait for it, William Shakespeare.

But honest to God, a novel, a whole freakin' novel in iambic pentameter?! Seriously?! Ok, I do admire the cleverness of the ...more

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Mar 12, 2013 Tracy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A masterpiece and my current favorite to win the Women's Prize for Fiction! ...more

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Feb 24, 2012 Catherine rated it it was amazing

This is such an original novel, written with such verve and energy, that I'd recommend readers cancel their commitments for a few days, stock up on tea (or ale) and just enjoy immersing themselves fully in this rich, delicious, multi-layered story. You don't have to know about Marlowe, or hold any 'position' on the Shakespeare authorship question, to enjoy this book; you just need to be the sort of reader who appreciates an exciting tale well told. Then you can marvel at its fluency, and delight ...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Megan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, 5-star, lovedlovedloved, yes-you-should-read-this

I loved this. I know its in verse and that's off-putting to a lot of people, but its extremely readable. If Barber had written it in prose, it wouldn't have been nearly as effective. It's gorgeously written, and I'll be buying a copy for my shelves (I borrowed it from the library) because it's something I'll definitely want to read again. I found/find myself wishing this is what really happened and I personally will happily pretend it's true. ...more

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Dec 16, 2012 Roy Elmer rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, literary-fiction

I see what Ros Barber was trying to do here. The Marlowe Papers is an argument for Christopher Marlowe being the real Shakespeare, composed entirely in verse, and spanning several years of Marlowe's life-after-death. It meets with a moderate amount of success, though I can't help but think that there are some flaws that spoil either her argument, or the yarn as a whole.

I'm a literature nerd by trade, with an MA in English and a specialism in renaissance drama. I've written essays and dissertatio I see what Ros Barber was trying to do here. The Marlowe Papers is an argument for Christopher Marlowe being the real Shakespeare, composed entirely in verse, and spanning several years of Marlowe's life-after-death. It meets with a moderate amount of success, though I can't help but think that there are some flaws that spoil either her argument, or the yarn as a whole.

I'm a literature nerd by trade, with an MA in English and a specialism in renaissance drama. I've written essays and dissertations on Marlowe, and on Shakespeare, and while I can see similiarities in the structure of their work, I still do genuinely believe that they are different people. Plays such A Winter's Tale are steeped in folklore and references to nature that come from the area surrounding the birthplace of the real Shakespeare and a place where Marlowe never ventured. There are just too many inconsistencies to suggest that Barber's hypothesis is correct, though that's just my view.

All of that said, this work formed Barber's PHD thesis, and has clearly been thoroughly researched. It does feel as if she has crafted a plausable story, and has deftly held her narrative together with references to plays written by Shakespeare, yet here claimed by Marlowe. There are references to Hamlet, the Tempest, Richard II, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, and all of these are used in comparison with the life experience had by Marlowe while he was alive and in his prime, or in the fictional post-death period that Barber explores in her novel. My concern about this is that fiction and fact have been blurred to create a realistic story that could lead to the same sorts of arguments that were had about realism in the Da Vinci code. The Marlowe Papers is one that should be taken with a pinch of salt, I think.

There are moments here where the verse is wonderful, and it flows, and I had to stop and try to convince myself that it wasn't a renaissance piece. There is a flipside to this however, where for the sake of convenience, or ease of reading for her audience, Barber has used anachronistic terms that jar you out of the experience.

All in all though, I would recommend it if you're a fan of early modern theatre, literature or historical novels, but my advice is to approach it with caution.

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Dec 06, 2013 Ellen Wilson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Historical Fiction Fans, or to those who love Shakespeare

Recommended to Ellen by: A friend

Barber is a master at conjuring the dead. She so skillfully imparts the substance of the Renaissance you feel your flesh creep with the longings and desires of people she magically brings to life as we envision each scene she seductively lays before us.
How does Barber accomplish this magic? She tells the tale in verse. Writing like an Elizabethan poet Barber is able to intuit a tale in a language lost to us. She flavors the writing with as just as much Elizabethan speech as needed to properly c ...more

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Aug 14, 2018 Laura Whichello rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

And borne alone, the heaviness of lies
had worn me so extremely that I cared
no longer, truly, if I lived or died.

I've had this book on my shelves for a few years now, and every time I'd consider picking it up the challenge of reading an entire novel in verse daunted me enough to scare me off completely.

But if that similarly daunts you, and regardless of your opinion on the Marlow/Shakespeare authorship debate, I couldn't recommend this novel highly enough.

Our narrator, Kit Marlowe, is believed ...more

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Feb 04, 2013 David Seals rated it it was ok

Disappointed - in the facile writing, and the research I've read before as a devout Marlovian. Nothing new. Of course he is "Shakespeare", and England is a fraud for keeping the pretense up for so long, for commerce; but why didn't he shout it from the rooftops, as all writers would, and have, like Cervantes when pretenders tried to say they wrote Don Quixote? Marlowe-Shakespeare must have been one crazy mean motherfucker. I don't like him. ...more

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Aug 17, 2014 Jeffrey Winter rated it it was amazing

As a fan of Marlowe and someone who truly believes he and Shakespeare are one and the same, this book just leaves me hungry for more each time I pick it up. The voice is ideal, the writing lovely. Ros has done a lovely job with this and I can't enjoy this any more than I can breathing. It sounds like home to me with every line. ...more

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Feb 23, 2012 Clare rated it it was amazing

One of the most original and enthralling novels I've ever read. Totally gripping plot: adventure and mystery and romance and history and literary whodunnit all rolled into a bundle of fast-moving poetic narrative. A must read. ...more

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Sep 13, 2018 Brendan Howlin rated it really liked it

Loved this because it is about Marlowe and it is in blank verse!

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Feb 16, 2021 Malvina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

For the record, this story falls very firmly into the 'Marlowe didn't die' camp. Instead, his death was staged and he was shipped off to Europe, there to write and send back plays which were then sold by William Shakespeare as his. Interesting! The whole book is written in iambic pentameter, which also fascinates. All in all, a terrific read, even though I'm not exactly convinced Marlowe was Shakespeare. ...more

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Jan 07, 2021 Jessica rated it it was amazing

Brilliant and beautiful, written in a vibrant approximation of Marlowe's actual verse. A swoon-worthy read, worth visiting again and again. ...more

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May 10, 2012 Éowyn rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction

I thought this was a really interesting idea; a 'novel (if that's even the right word!) written entirely in Blank Verse. Obviously the subject matter was also one that interested me.

The book apparently formed part of Barber's PhD and her central theory is the one that playwright and intelligencer Christopher Marlowe did not in fact die in Deptford as supposed. Subsidiary to this is the idea that William Shakespeare was just a front man for a whole host of plays written by an exiled Marlowe. Desp I thought this was a really interesting idea; a 'novel (if that's even the right word!) written entirely in Blank Verse. Obviously the subject matter was also one that interested me.

The book apparently formed part of Barber's PhD and her central theory is the one that playwright and intelligencer Christopher Marlowe did not in fact die in Deptford as supposed. Subsidiary to this is the idea that William Shakespeare was just a front man for a whole host of plays written by an exiled Marlowe. Despite appearing in a production of Doctor Faustus as a teenager, I will admit that I am not terribly au fait with the details of Marlowe's life but having read Barber's work and the notes at the back, I can see there is some mileage in the idea of him having not actually died as reported; certainly there appears something fishy going on. I'm less convinced by the idea that someone else 'must' have written Shakespeare's plays. If Marlowe could be successful as the son of a Kentish Cobbler, why can't we believe the same of the son of a Stratford glover? Be that as it may, that is the stance Barber has chosen to take and I can accept what she gives me for the purpose of her 'entertainment' of 'what might have happened'.

As to the book itself, it's about 400 pages long and I think it took about 100 of those before I felt I was really getting into it. I'm not sure if it was adjusting to the style of the work (I read some plays in Blank Verse, but I'm not a great poetry lover) or if the early section was more chronologically disjointed and more tricky to get into the swing of the action? I am glad I persevered though, as I did end up enjoying it. On the other hand, I can more than understand that some people won't find it their cup of tea at all - I don't think there is any other work, at least not in English, that is written in quite the same way. It certainly must have been a labour of love getting exactly the right words to make all that Iambic Pentameter work, so hats off to Barber on this score.

Now I feel like seeing if I can find a decent biography of Marlowe, and surely that can only be a good thing. ...more

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Apr 16, 2013 Jenny GB rated it liked it

I picked this up browsing the new books at my library and was intrigued by the idea of reading an argument for Marlowe's authorship of the Shakespeare plays as well as interested in a book written in [poetry in iambic pentameter. Barber tells the story of Marlowe's life. At the beginning it jumps times frames between the past and present relaying Marlowe's early career, involvement with the government as a spy, and his eventual slow downfall from grace that leads to his faked death and exile.

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May 02, 2013 E_h rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommended to E_h by: Liz

I wish I could rate this 4.5 stars. I'm one of those English majors who believes Shakespeare actually was a real person and actually wrote (most of) the work for which he receives the credit. And I still really enjoyed this verse-novel and found myself wondering if maybe Ros Barber's version of history is closer to the truth. The poetry is really good and not difficult or tiring to read. I would have liked a bit more exciting espionage-y stuff and a bit more about the actual writing of the plays ...more

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Feb 23, 2012 Peter rated it it was amazing

I'm not sure whether I am allowed to comment on this book, having had the freebee copy sent to a friend of mine passed on to me because she knew of my interest in Christopher Marlowe. But I will anyway, because I find Gilly P's comments so ridiculous. She rejects it because she calls it an "epic poem" rather than a "novel in verse". So what? Despite my disagreement with some of the story as told by Ros Barber, I found her telling of it excellent, and read it in one sitting. It is a story which o ...more

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Mar 25, 2013 Carl rated it liked it

This book was a mixed bag for me.

Whilst I enjoyed the verse style of the writing I did find some of it to be somewhat lacklustre - having said that maintaining such a style for such a long book cannot be easy by any stretch. But therein lies another problem I had with the book - it's too long! I found that the first third was excellent, the middle third was okay but the last third became a bit of a slog. This is not because of the style but because of the story - I feel it had been dragged on fo ...more

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Nov 06, 2016 Martha rated it really liked it

"The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of the playwright’s works — which will be published by Oxford University Press online ahead of a worldwide print release — lists Christopher Marlowe as Shakespeare’s co-author on the three “Henry VI” plays, parts 1, 2 and 3" ~ NYT

This very interesting bit of news came out after I'd ordered _The Marlowe Papers_ so reading it had an extra layer. I was wary at first. I've only read one other contemporary novel in verse, and it was brief and wonderful. I thought l ...more

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Apr 09, 2013 Christina rated it it was ok

Shelves: i-tried

I tried to read this. I thought the book had a smart, clever premise because it was written entirely in iambic pentameter which is a feat in and of itself. I was going to write this review in iambic pentameter but my computer just glitched on me and I lost my brilliant work. I give up. The novel picks up shortly after Christopher Marlowe was murdered, but actually his death was faked. He flees to the continent where he continues to write poems, plays, and other works under the name of William Sh ...more

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Mar 28, 2013 Charlotte rated it liked it

Early Modern era fans take not: a significant feat in which Ros Barber writes a novel, starring Christopher Marlowe, in blank verse. Kit, in this alternate world, does not die in a tavern in Deptford, but stages his death, escapes to the continent, and writes all of Shakespeare. Despite the literary devices and potential for twee the book flows beautifully, and shouldn't offend, except for those most die-hard Shakespearean-authorship axe-grinders. Highly recommended. If you would like a well-res ...more

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May 14, 2013 Danielle rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Really good. Probably better read in paper format as the Kindle can't handle the layout of iambic pentameter and I suspect you lose something in that. I love a book that challenges my beliefs and this one certainly has. Never thought I could be a Marlovian. Shakespeare has always been an icon. AND I'd never known the difference between burglary and robbery, or the importance of Psalm 51 to these crimes. I do love a book that teaches me something even when I don't realise I'm learning. Absolutely ...more

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May 27, 2013 Lili rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction

I give this 2.5 stars.

It took me a very long time to read this book. About 6 months. I kept starting and stopping.

I think it's very impressive that Barber wrote it all in verse, but reading it was very tiresome and I almost gave up. I felt like the whole time I was waiting for something that made me understand why Marlowe could be Shakespeare, but it never came.

So...in my opinion a boring story that was very impressively written. The idea of the book certainly appealed to me more than the exe ...more

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Jun 26, 2013 Megan Anderson rated it it was ok

Shelves: formystudents, src-11-summer-2013, 2013

The premise is great and the first few pages are lovely...and then it's just boring. I rarely encounter a novel in verse that I dislike, but this is definitely one of those times. Drawn-out and dull. I had to force myself to the end, and even the conclusion was unsatisfying. I didn't particularly care about any of the characters, and I didn't feel anything for Marlowe's plight. Oh, well. I did like how the events influenced the plays that were written and Barber's take on the Dark Lady and such, ...more

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Jul 08, 2013 M rated it did not like it

Shelves: historical-fiction

One star for the obvious great deal of effort that went into writing this novel. What sounded to me like a book that, composed entirely of blank verse poems, would be an interesting read turned out to be quite dull. How much better it would have been as prose interspersed with a limited number of poems that would elucidate character and conjure up period. Instead, it stands as a dry monument to one author's great store of knowledge. Scholars of Marlowe and the English Renaissance aside, this boo ...more

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Aug 14, 2013 Lisa rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Interesting concept, but the author didn't really carry it off. First, if you're going to do your novel in verse, fine, but your verse should stay in the voice of your character. There was too much modernity intruding for me to believe I was reading the work of Marlowe. Second, the cast of characters was confusing. (Too many with the same name and not always clear from context which one is meant.) Finally, the Marlowe in this book is just annoying. By halfway through, I felt the urge to read mor ...more

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Nov 01, 2013 Meredith Watkins rated it really liked it

Interesting look into one of the many conspiracy theories as to William Shakespeare really was. Also, this is a novel, but it's written in the form of poems. Very clever in my opinion. The tale of Christopher Marlowe is indeed an interesting one. ...more

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