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Tudor True Crime: Murder of Christopher Marlowe
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Who stabbed the famed playwright? And who planned it? We're stepping out of the sun and into the shadows on Not Just the Tudors , as Professor Suzannah Lipscomb investigates Tudor True Crime; a selection of history’s most notorious murders and murderers. 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. MORE: Dr Faustus: Pacts with the…