Robert Darcy wrote:-
>The case against Marlowe ended when he was killed not in a barroom brawl, as the
>story goes, but in a private room in a Deptford hotel where three men (including
>Marlowe) were spending the day. When Marlowe turned up dead, of a knife wound to
>the brain from just above the eye, the other men in the room testified that it had
been >self-defense over a dispute concerning the "reckoning," or the food and room
charge.
a) It was not a bar-room and it was not a hotel -- it was a private house
belonging to Dame Eleanor Bull. Others have found evidence that she
was related to Lord Burghley and I have found that she was Fulke
Greville's auntie. Marlowe knew Greville through his relationship with
Sidney.
b) Marlowe did not die. He was wounded in his right eye but it did not
kill him -- he spent his second 29 years in exile, writing as 'William
Shakespeare' as well as using other names. He actually died in 1622,
which is when work was started on the First Folio (not 1616 when the
man died from whom the name 'Shakespeare' was taken.)
c) Marlowe was bi-sexual but he preferred men, as he states in
Sonnets 149 and 150. The Dark Lady gave the lie to his true sight,
as he against himself with her partook, because he loved "what others
do abhor".
Peter Zenner
+44 (0) 1246 271726
Visit my web site 'Zenigmas' at
http://www.pzenner.freeserve.co.uk
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