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The Latest Breaking News from Christopher Marlowe

The real story behind Ncuti Gatwa’s ‘dark, sexy’ Shakespeare play: Were The Bard and Marlowe lovers or rivals?

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

Evening Standard

Ncuti Gatwa to play Christopher Marlowe in West End play

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

The Independent UK

Ncuti Gatwa to star in 'dark, sexy' West End play about Shakespeare and 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

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Ncuti Gatwa to star in play about rival playwrights Shakespeare and Marlowe

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

Evening Standard

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

The Independent UK

The problem with new claims that Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was co-written by a forgotten dramatist

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…

The Conversation

Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus may have been co-written by forgotten dramatist

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

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Dominic West is a fabulous Faustus but this movie marathon plays the devil with Marlowe

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

The Guardian - UK

Two theatres, both alike in historical importance

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

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: how women bankrolled rival to 17th century Globe theatre

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

The Guardian - UK

Tamerlano review – Handel’s sadistic psychopath gains deadly charisma in stylish update

Two superb countertenors enact the love-hate relationship between the emperor and his rival in Daniel Slater’s superbly acted and sung production

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