Live fast, die young, inspire Shakespeare - Harvard Gazette
Christopher Marlowe significantly shaped Elizabethan theater with tragic grandeur, a meteoric rise, and a squalid, murky death entangled with espionage and religiously driven violence.
Christopher Marlowe's plays presented graphic violence, transgressive humor, and grotesque spectacle that catered to the brutal tastes of late-sixteenth-century London audiences.
Review: 'Born with Teeth' starring Ncuti Gatwa at Wyndham's Theatre
A trashy, playful two-hander presents Marlowe as brash and Shakespeare as mild, mixing sexual tension, comedy, and growing seriousness about reputation and power.
The Guardian view on Christopher Marlowe: it's time to read him and honour him | Editorial
Christopher Marlowe's theatrical prominence has faded, but a new West End production revives his charisma and explores provocative links with William Shakespeare.