Thomas Kyd (* ~ 6 November 1558; buried 25 August 1594) was the son of a scrivener. He received a good education at Merchant Taylors' School but did not attend university. Today hardly anything is known about him, but he was probably a well-known and respected author in the theatre…
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
Thomas Walsingham (* 1561; † 11 August 1630) was the third surviving son of Sir Thomas Walsingham and Dorothy Guildford. Edmund Walsingham, Thomas' grandfather, had been an uncle of Francis Walsingham. Almost certainly he and Thomas Watson worked for Walsingham in the early 1980s when he was ambassador in Paris….
Thomas Watson (* ~ 1557; † 1592) came from a wealthy family and attended Oxford University, but did not graduate.1 Around 1572 he went to the continent, where he stayed mainly in Italy and France. For a short time he attended the English College, which at that time was still…
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
Walter Warner (* ~ 1557; † 1643) studied at Oxford. Despite wide-ranging interests, he was mainly concerned with chemistry and medicine. Henry Percy engaged him to support his alchemical experiments. He did not publish during his lifetime, but was well known and respected in academic circles. He could be the…
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
Christopher Marlowe was obviously quicker and harderworking than I am. Unfortunately, this post is still a work in progress.
William Shakespeare’s (baptised 26 April 1564; † 3 May 1616) life and work may be assumed to be well known. The mutual influence of Marlowe and Shakespeare is an inexhaustible subject on which books have already been written. (The following is therefore deliberately brief.) Direct reference to Marlowe can be…
William Warner (* c. 1558 in London; † 9 March 1609 in Amwell) was actually a lawyer, but became famous for the patriotic poem Albion’s England (1586). Thomas Kyd mentioned in one of his letters that Marlowe was socialising with a Warner. However, it is not certain that this is…
