Episode 453
Tudor True Crime: Murder of Christopher Marlowe
Who stabbed the famed playwright? And who planned it?
Not Just the Tudors · History Hit
August 18, 202550m 42s
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Show Notes
<p>Who stabbed the famed playwright? And who planned it? We're stepping out of the sun and into the shadows on <em>Not Just the Tudors</em>, as Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates Tudor True Crime; a selection of history’s most notorious murders and murderers.</p><br><p>Today Suzannah is joined by Charles Nicholl to dig deeper into the mystery of the 1593 murder of the brilliant and controversial playwright Christopher Marlowe, who was stabbed to death in a house in Deptford. The official account stated it was a violent quarrel over the bill. But as Charles Nicholl explains, critical evidence about that fatal day points to Marlowe's shadowy political and espionage dealings.</p><br><p><strong>MORE:</strong></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5T0XNw1joQCfJJW7JD9L4q" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Dr Faustus: Pacts with the Devil ></strong></a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6rOvzRW0tdP3eW5a0kZ4yb" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Mysterious Murder of Juan Borgia ></strong></a></p><br><p>Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. Edited and produced by Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.</p><p>All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.</p><p><em>Not Just the Tudors is a History Hit podcast</em></p><br><p><strong>Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at </strong><a href="https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><u>https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe</u></strong></a><strong>.</strong> </p><br><p>You can take part in our listener survey <a href="https://insights.historyhit.com/history-hit-podcast-always-on" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p><p><a href="https://insights.historyhit.com/history-hit-podcast-always-on" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://insights.historyhit.com/history-hit-podcast-always-on</a></p>
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