The Mystery of Marlowe

This past Thursday The Mechanics' Library hosted David Riggs, author of The World of Christopher Marlow, for a discussion on Marlowe's short life (he was murdered at the age of 29). While the author concurs that there are few verifiable facts available about the playwright's life and his mysterious death, there is quite a bit of interesting information on the unique classical education of Marlowe and his Elizabethan contemporaries Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Ben Jonson.