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Exclusive: Born With Teeth by Liz Duffy Adams, coming to West End, imagines rival dramatists working together

As Born With Teeth brings a ‘ferociously sexy’ take on literature’s greatest mystery to the West End, we separate the tantalising facts from wild fiction

Royal Shakespeare Company announces Gatwa has been cast as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.

Born With Teeth will be hitting the West End this summer, featuring Gatwa as Christopher Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as William Shakespeare in a “ferociously sexy” take on the relationship between the playwrights

Born With Teeth follows Marlowe and Shakespeare as the pair collaborate in the backroom of a pub.

Body cam captured the bizarre moment Florida police arrested a clown who allegedly caused a disturbance at a mall.

In Shakespeare’s time, about a quarter of all plays were collaboratively written by two or more dramatists. Christopher Marlowe’s classic work Doctor Faustus was first performed in the 1580s or early 1590s but only published in 1604, 11 years after his death. The dramatists Samuel Rowley and William Bird were…

Exclusive: Scholar names Henry Porter as likely co-author of 1604 play after linguistic clues in his surviving work

West joined a starry cast for script-in-hand readings of Christopher Marlowe’s complete works in Canterbury. The resulting films are frustrating

Letters: Rupert Gavin and Austen Lynch on the Theatre (1576) and the Curtain theatre (1577), which hosted the earliest performances of William Shakespeare’s plays

In an age when all parts were played by men, the Fortune Theatre relied on female backers, a study shows