Of the paper trail left by Marlowe’s life, no document has been more pored over than the report of the inquest into his death ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released the first rehearsal images from “Born With Teeth,” offering a glimpse of Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel as Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare ...

The new book "Dark Renaissance" is a true story of spies, counterfeiters, betrayal and murder. It's about the short life of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's greatest rival. And the ...

The English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as his frenemy William Shakespeare. Yet unless you majored in English in college, it is quite possible you never ...

The son of a glove maker and municipal politician from Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare seems to have risen from modest means to become one of history’s greatest writers, a peerless poet and ...

From today’s salacious perspective, Christopher Marlowe got everything right. Astoundingly, the shoemaker’s son made it to Cambridge and was soon a trailblazing playwright. He wrote boldly about ...

Stephen Greenblatt won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for “The Swerve” and is a New York Times best-selling author of “Will in the World.” Greenblatt is editor of both “The Norton Anthology of English ...