rupert everett played kit marlowe in shakespeare in love.
rupert everett played kit marlowe in shakespeare in love.
who played kit marlowe in shakespeare in love?
rupert everett
christopher marlowe is presented in the film as the master playwright whom the characters consider the greatest english dramatist of that time — this is historically accurate, yet also humorous, since the film's audience knows what will eventually happen to shakespeare's reputation. marlowe gives shakespeare a plot for his next play, "romeo and ethel the pirate's daughter" ("romeo is italian...always in and out of love...until he meets...ethel. the daughter of his enemy! his best friend is killed in a duel by ethel's brother or something. his name is mercutio.") marlowe's "doctor faustus" is quoted repeatedly: "was this the face that launched a thousand ships/ and burned the topless towers of ilium?" a reference is also made to marlowe's final, unfinished play "the massacre at paris" in a scene wherein marlowe (rupert everett) seeks payment for the final act of the play from richard burbage (martin clunes). burbage promises the payment the next day, so marlowe refuses to part with the pages and departs for deptford, where he is killed. the only surviving text of "the massacre at paris" is an undated octavo that is probably too short to represent the complete original play. it has been suggested that it is a memorial reconstruction by the actors who performed the work.
shakespeare in love
bullet::::- marlowe plays a major role in elizabeth bear's "the promethean age" novels (2006–2013). in this account marlowe and shakespeare had a secret, deeply emotional homosexual love affair and many of shakespeare's sonnets were written to express his love for marlowe. in this story marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 but was taken into faerie where he became the lover of the witch morgan le fay.









































bullet::::- m. j. trow's "the kit marlowe series" (2011–), depicts marlowe as a detective and spy for sir francis walsingham. trow has also written non-fiction about marlowe.
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