Steven Waddington as Edward II and Andrew Tiernan as Gaveston in the 1991 film by Derek Jarman
OCR: Paper 1 Drama and poetry pre-1900
Of all the early modern dramatists, Christopher Marlowe has perhaps been most susceptible to readings that connect details of his life with the plays he wrote. The facts that surround his short life and brutal death have, for many, made him a fascinating, ‘dangerous’ figure: he died at the early age of 29, stabbed through the eye in a pub brawl. Rumours circulated then and persist now that he worked as a secret agent for Queen Elizabeth I, under the direction of spymaster Francis Walsingham.
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