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Heratic? Homosexual? Spy?  - The Life and Murder of Christopher Marlowe.

Heratic? Homosexual? Spy? - The Life and Murder of Christopher Marlowe.

Update: 2025-03-06
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Christopher Marlowe was the star writer of the 1580s.   The Elizabethans flocked to his plays.   But Kitt’s life was shrouded in mystery. Was he a secret agent? A Catholic spy? A double agent for Queen Elizabeth’s government.  There is evidence that he was heretical atheist.  And he may have been England's first gay poet   Hear how this ended with a murder mystery on May 30, 1593.

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Heratic? Homosexual? Spy?  - The Life and Murder of Christopher Marlowe.

Heratic? Homosexual? Spy? - The Life and Murder of Christopher Marlowe.

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