Christopher Marlowe - Fictional Works About Marlowe

Fictional Works About Marlowe

• Wilbur G. Zeigler's It was Marlowe, about Marlowe faking his death after a duel. 1895 (Novel)
• Philip Lindsay's One Dagger for Two, fictionalised account of Marlowe's life. 1932 (Novel)
• Leo Rost's Marlowe, stage musical based on Rost's book. 1981
• David Grimm's, Kit Marlowe, about Marlowe's spying activity. 2000 (Play)
• Louise Welsh's Tamburlaine Must Die, about the last two weeks of Marlowe's life. 2004 (Novel)
• Anthony Burgess' A Dead Man in Deptford, fictionalised account of Marlowe's death. 1993 (Novel)
• Peter Whelan's The School of Night, about Marlowe's links to the freethinking "school of night" and the young Shakespeare. 1992 (Play)
• In the 1998 film Shakespeare In Love, Marlowe is portrayed by Rupert Everett
• Nat Cassidy's The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots, a 2008 "metaphysical buddy comedy" about Marlowe and Caligula.
• Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers, in which Marlowe looks back on his past, which includes a faked death. 2012 (Novel in verse)
• Francis Hamit's Marlowe: An Elizabethan Tragedy a 1988 stage play about his career as spy, presented in Equity Waiver in Los Angeles and the basis for a forthcoming motion picture.
• The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries, a fictional 4-episode BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast in 2007.
• Michael Butt's The Killing, a radio play originally broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 17 August 2010