Kit Marlowe miscellany - quotes from the web...

[lyra]

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excerpt from a play...

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AUSTEN
And what happened to you, Mr. Wilde? You did not arrive home until this
morning.

WILDE
Oh, I met Kit Marlowe, Will's friend. A terribly exciting person,
though perhaps overly fond of conspiracy theories. He told me at length
about how Queen Elizabeth had implanted a microchip in his brain,
though he declined to explain what a microchip is. I can only

suppose it is some sort of strangely interesting train of thought.

AUSTEN
I am reminded-where is Mr. Shakespeare this morning?

WILDE
It is unlike him to go un-noticed for so long.

AUSTEN
He's not in the living room. Mr. Shakespeare! We would speak with
you!

Two sets of footsteps throughout the following.

WILDE
William! Where are you?

AUSTEN
Mr. Shakespeare, you are causing us some concern!

WILDE
He's not in any of the bedrooms.

AUSTEN
Nor the pantry. Mr. Shakespeare!

WILDE
Perhaps he was kidnapped.

AUSTEN
Nonsense. Have you searched the attic?

http://coraxjabberwock.livejournal.com/6694.html

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myspace

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006


Live with your favourite author for a week

The prize in this competition amused me and Greg quite a lot:

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Aww but I wanted to live with Kit Marlowe! Living authors are no fun!

Laura x

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vicki


Ha ha ha, I want to live with Chaucer for a week!!

I'm suspicious of this competition like, surely it can't be universal?
Every single author has agreed just in case the winner decides they'd
like to live with that person.

Posted by vicki On Friday, December 15, 2006 at 5:58 AM

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[lyra]

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("Falcon Crest")

A woman claiming to be Peter's long-lost daughter, Skylar, turned out
to be an impostor of many disguises named Kit Marlowe, who was running
from a devious Eastern billionaire, Roland Saunders. His life came to
an end when Kit offered him a poisoned cigar moments before Peter
fatally struck him on the head with a wrench.

http://qicr7dqm.blogspot.com/2006/12/soaps-part-one-of-two-part-retro-post.html

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Book Review For Young Readers By Lauren Schmidt:

The Secret of the Rose

By Sarah L. Thomson

Greenwillow/ Hardcover/ $16.99/ 296 pp

Ages 10 and up

While the title hints at a story along the lines of Beauty and the
Beast, this novel is anything but.

Set toward the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it deals with the
persecution of the Catholics, the Hollanders, and the players.

Running from this persecution, Rosalind Archer and her brother Robin
are looking for a way to survive. "We must survive.... We must go to
their churches, take part in their plays, and keep the truth in our
hearts." Every part of their lives is a secret.

Christopher Marlowe is a moody playwright who needs a good scribe.
Rosalind, disguised as Richard, Robin's brother, has excellent
penmanship, while Robin joins the group of players.

Working for Marlowe, Rosalind finds that she is not the only one hiding
a secret. Marlowe's secret alliances and clandestine meetings add an
air of mystery to the book.

(read the article at

http://www.lacanadaonline.com/articles/2006/12/21/entertainment/lap-youngbook1221.txt
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[lyra]

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 That didn't stop Dad from continuing to work. His pet project was
correcting timeline tampering by French revisionists. This often
involved keeping certain historical figures out of harm's way by
letting them stay with Mum for a while. As I said, the company at the
dinner table often made dinner an eventful meal. Such was the case this
particular night when I found myself sitting between my uncle Mycroft
and Christopher Marlowe.

"So Kit," my brother, the Irreverent Joffy Next, said as he passed the
mashed potatoes to Miles to pass it on to Aunt Polly. "Why did you
produce so few plays? Compared to Will Shakespeare, I mean."

I may have, at that point, shuffled slightly away from Kit Marlowe,
expecting a rather raucous retaliation. His temper, however, didn't
flare like I expected and he responded quite politely, "Poetry is my
focus." The calmness of his voice made it hard to believe that he would
eventually die in a bar fight. Perhaps it was just a case of being in
the wrong place at the wrong time. Or, as Dad insisted, French
revisionists.

Personally, I think he was probably rambunctuous when alcohol was
brought into the equation.

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"Affection between siblings is one thing that never changes," Marlowe
said, digging into his peas.

"Very true, Kit," Joffy agreed.

http://no-toast-thanks.livejournal.com/12448.html

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"The Secret of the Rose" by Sarah L. Thomson I spent all day today
reading. I picked it up and couldn't put it down again. It's aimed at
a bit of a younger set than "Octavian Nothing", but it's still very
good. I liked it most because after Revolutionary America and
Victorian England, Elizabethan England is my favorite historical
period. It's about a girl named Rosalind who winds up in London with
her brother after their father is arrested for being a Catholic. The
two of them find themselves at the Rose Theater, and Rosalind (dressed
as a boy), becomes Kit Marlowe's secretary. The plot revolves around
the theory that Marlowe was a spy for Queen Elizabeth. It's much
simpler than "Octavian Nothing", but it has some passages that tug
your heartstrings. Another element to its credit is the
characterization, especially of Rosalind--getting into the head of a
girl growing up in the 1590's. Also, Thomson did a good job with the
period language. The story just kind of meanders, but it really didn't
matter. Its merits more than make up for its minor faults.

They're both young adult fiction. Really, I think some of the best
historical fiction (actually, some of the best general fiction) out
there is what's being written for teenagers, especially the books
aimed at the 14 and older set. I'd say that both of these books fall
into that category...maybe "Secret of the Rose" would be enjoyable for
someone a bit younger, but M.T. Anderson's work is better suited for
older teens (or people in their early twenties.

http://jpelagia.livejournal.com/69365.html

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On 3/27/07, lyra  wrote:

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[lyra]

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Kit Marlowe

I've just finished reading a book I picked up in Cambridge called The
Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe. I've always loved Kit
Marlowe and the stories and conspiracies around him; one of the best
college plays I ever saw was a take on his Faust, done with 1930s
clothes and a very dark theme song (the Garbage song from Romeo and
Juliet done only with sax and bass).

Anyway, this is Charles Nicholl's attempt to find as much as
information as he can about the people who were actually present at
Marlowe's death (Frizer, Skeres and Poley), their various connections
and dealings iin life, and make some sense of them. He's also found as
much information as he can about Marlowe and his possible/probable
spying efforts.

There is a lot of information gathered here. Some of it at least may
have been more suited to a book on spies in Elizabethan times, which I
still would have read anyway, although I can see the point of
including most of it here - good background, shows just what sort of
people were involved, and lends weight to Nicholl's idea that it wasnt
just a drunken brawl over the bill that left Marlowe with a dagger in
his eye.

I'm not entirely convinced by Nicholl's final ideas, which is that
Marlowe was being set up in order to discredit Walter Raleigh (who was
indeed jailed for treason about a decade later - Marlowe was killed in
1593). Marlowe's connections to Raleigh seemed a bit tenuous, and even
more so did the reasons for wanting to bring Raleigh down. Maybe I am
too straight-forward a thinker that I can't get my head around the
convolutions that seemed to be involved in Elizabethan politics (and
probably are today, in the murkier side of things).

I enjoyed it as a book. It's easy to read, although I got lost a few
times trying to keep up with who was who and how they were connected,
although Nicholls does a fair job of keeping the reader up to speed
with little reminders about info that has come before, which was most
welcome. As I said, not entirely convinced that Raleigh was ultimately
the reason for his death, but I am definitely willing to believe that
there was some dastardly conspiracy behind it all.

On a related note, the last board you read as go out of the Globe in
London is about the whole Shakespeare and authorship issue. Marlowe
is, of course, mentioned... and there are leaflets for the Marlowe
Society next to the board. I love that.

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On 3/27/07, lyra wrote:

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lyra

[lyra]

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birthday wishes for Feb 6...

(But I prefer to call it Feb 16)

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Happy Birthday to a lot of people - including me!

Here are the other February 6 babies - well, okay, they're not babies
anymore, in fact many of them have already gone on to meet their
maker.

I couldn't decide whether to go in chronological or alphabetical order
so I flipped a coin - chronological won, plus, I get to present one of
my favorite historical characters first.

1564 saw the birth of English Dramatist Christopher "Kit" Marlowe.
This is the man William Shakespeare was most influenced by.
Shakespeare's cadence and style borrowed heavily from Marlowe who,
until Shakespeare came around, was the most popular author and
playwright in England. The reason I have always given Marlowe a lot of
accolades was because of his audacity. One of his final plays -
perhaps even his very last - was "The Massacre at Paris". What made
this play so audacious was because he used contemporary characters,
including Elizabeth I. The basis of the play was the actual St.
Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris, where Catholics took to the
streets of Paris and the countryside and murdered well over two-
thousand Huguenots.

One of the characters in the play was called the "English Agent". It
is believed this character - who remained silent throughout the
production - was based on Marlowe himself and it is also possible that
Marlowe took the role in the initial production. There was a lot of
speculation that Marlowe himself was a secret agent for the Queen. The
Catholics despised Marlowe after the release of the play and many
wanted him arrested for treason for daring to include the Queen in his
production. This never happened, however, one evening while drinking
with some fellow secret agents, Marlowe got into a dispute over the
tab and was stabbed above the eye. He died swearing. The play everyone
knows from Marlowe was the first dramatic depiction of the tale of Dr.
Faust and the Devil. Marowe translated the book into English and
rewrote it as "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus".

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I also share a birthday with some singers/musicians. Fabian Forte
(1943), Bob Marley (1945), and Natalie Cole (1950).



In 1962, fellow Hoosier Axl Rose was born in Lafayette, IN.



posted by Robert Rouse at 1:10 PM

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February 6th is Kit Marlowe's 443rd !birthday. (That's "birthday,
implied.") As with Shakespeare, we have only an approximation of the
actual date.

Next year is the 444th anniversary of both men's birth. I have
something special planned, but it might arrive a month or two late.

http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1039519.html

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lyra

[lyra]

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In "Heart of Whitenesse," which Waldrop himself seems to view as his most
compacted and densely allusive work, Christopher Marlowe is sent up the
frozen Thames on a secret mission to kill Dr. Faustus. Following a few
preliminaries, it opens:

"I'd come up from the covers and poured myself a cup of malmsey you could
have drowned a pygmy in, then dressed as best I could, and made my way out
into this cold world.


"Shoreditch was dismal in the best of times, and this wasn't it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/15/AR2007031502
608_2.html

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lyra