A vibrant, modern biography of the writer, and suspected spy, Christopher Marlowe - Shakespeare-s bolder, raunchier and more radical brother in arms, pen and ink.
LONDON, LATE 16TH CENTURY. Townhouses quickly give way to overcrowded tenements and hovels; cobblestone lanes are filled with excrement and offal; bodies hang from gallows and severed heads are impaled on spikes for all to see. It-s a place of repression, suspicion, censorship, and violence - for London to become the scene of astonishing creativity and intellectual daring someone truly revolutionary had to break through the status quo.
ENTER CHRISTOPHER -KIT- MARLOWE. A cobbler-s son from Canterbury with no connections, no resources, and no social standing, he-s an unlikely candidate for this role. But, having scrambled his way out of poverty and through a Cambridge education, he also enters London with nothing to lose. From inner city taverns to royal courts, Marlowe becomes a
