Most historians believe that Marlowe, a brilliant scholar, fabled poet and famed playwright, worked as a spy for the Queen and got involved in a political skirmish for which he was going to be put on trial. Hodges, that just opened at the Studio Theater on Theatre Row, West 42d Street, New York. The arguments put forth by the debunkers of the Bard of Avon pushing for Marlowe spew forth in a delightful new play, Marlowe’s Fate, by Peter B. The champion real Shakespearean playwright, the King of the Elizabethan hill, was Christopher Marlowe. Some even suggest that a few of them got together as a committee and wrote his plays. A group of conspiracy theorists starting back in the 1840s have argued vociferously that any one of a half dozen 17th century writers could have written all of Shakespeare’s plays. Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? It was not William Shakespeare. Sir John Gilbert's 1849 painting: The Plays of Shakespeare, containing scenes and characters from several of William Shakespeare's plays.
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