Marlowe's Ghost: The Blacklisting of the Man Who Was Shakespeare

by Daryl Pinksen

On the morning of May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe met with three associates in the English intelligence network. Later that evening the Queen's coroner was summoned to their meeting place. A body lay on the floor. After an inquest, the dead man was taken to a nearby churchyard busy at the time receiving victims of the plague. According to the official report, England's foremost playwright was interred without fanfare or marker. Soon, plays attributed to William Shakespeare began to appear on the London stage, plays so undeniably similar to Marlowe's that noted scholars have since declared that Shakespeare wrote as if he had been Marlowe's apprentice. Marlowe's The Blacklisting of the Man Who Was Shakespeare explores the possibility that persecution of a writer who dared to question authority may have led to the greatest literary cover-up of all time.

284 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2008

Reviews

[Joe Mazerolle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Award winning and thorough examination of the Shakespeare authorship debate. Highly readable, with interesting insight into Shakespeare's life and how he became the man behind the works. It converted me to the declaration of reasonable doubt as the the authorship of the body of work known as Shakespeare.