Table of Contents

Preface      1
Prologue      3

1. The Mystery Examined      5
2. Canterbury and Stratford      10
3. The King’s School      17
4. Marlowe at Cambridge      21
5. The Cambridge Experience      26
6. Marlowe’s Early Works      31
7. Marlowe and the Secret Service      37
8. The Babington Plot      40
9. Marlowe Goes to London      45
10. The Power of Tamburlaine      49
11. Tamburlaine II      54
12 The Spanish Armada      61
13. Marlowe’s Friends      67
14. Marlowe and Sir Walter Ralegh      73
15. Ralegh’s Coterie of Scholars      78
16. Who Was Robert Greene?       82
17. Doctor Faustus      88
18. Henslowe’s Diary      97
19. Marlowe and Edward Alleyn      102
20. Barabas: The Jew of Malta      107
21. Setting the Stage for Edward II and The Massacre at Paris      122
22. The Massacre at Paris and Philip Sidney      130
23. Edward II      139
24. Henry VI, Part One      156
25. Henry VI, Part Two      170
26. Henry VI, Part Three      184
27. Marlowe and Burghley      195
28. Burghley and Son      202
29. Martin Marprelate and John Penry      206
30. The Plot to Save Christopher Marlowe      212
31. The Plot to Destroy Christopher Marlowe      222
32. Enter William Shakespeare      230
33. Hero and Leander      238
34. Edward Blount: Marlowe’s Executor      244
35. Marlowe and the Pembrokes      249
36. The Sonnets      254
37. The First Folio      262
38. The Marlowe-Shakespeare Code      335
39. A Summing Up      340

Postscript      345
Bibliography      349
Index      355