The Reckoning

The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

By: Charles Nicholl

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Paperback | 3 October 2002 | Edition Number 1

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The Reckoning is the first full-length investigation of the killing, tracing Marlowe's shadowy political dealings, his involvement in covert intelligence work, and the charges of heresy and homosexuality against him. Critical new evidence is uncovered about his three companions on that last day in Deptford, and about the sinister role of the informer Richard Baines. But more than that, The Reckoning is an enthralling revelation of the whole extraordinary underworld of Elizabethan crime and espionage, a 'secret theatre' in which nearly every historical figure familiar to us, from hack poet to queen's high minister, seems to have played a part. Here, in a tour-de-force of precise scholarship and dazzling ingenuity, Charles Nicholl penetrates four centuries of obscurity to expose not only a complex and unsettling story of entrapment and betrayal, chimerical plots and sordid felonics, but also a fascinating vision of the underside of an entire culture.

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An absorbing detective story with many twists and dark secrets. It is a passionate tale that haunts the imagination -- Michael Sheldon * Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year *
Remarkable...for the first time reveals the true mystery of his death... Extraordinary * The Times *
A book full of wit, scholarship and ingenuity... Extraordinary -- Colm Toibin * Irish Times *
A remarkable academic thriller, a brilliant recontruction -- Michael Coveney * Observer *
This book blows open the world of Elizabethan espionage, and presents the most comprehensive case yet for disbelieving the official inquest * Independent *

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Introduction: A Torch Turning Downward
The Killing
Deptford, 1593
The Official Story
The Witnesses
Widow Bull
Libels and Heresies
Reactions
The First Epitaphs
The 'Goggle-eyed Sonnet'
Independent Accounts
Touchstone's Riddle
Vaughan and the Perrots
The Questions
The Intelligence Connection
Faithful Dealing
The Elizabethan Secret Service
Thomas Walsingham
Shaking the Foundation
Robert Poley
The Babington Plot
Poets and Spies
'Our Best for Plotting'
Thomas Watson
Fictions and Knaveries
The Wizard Earl
The 'Priest of the Sun'
The Low Countries
New Masters
Lord Strange
The Dutch Shilling
Marlowe and Poole
Poley's Network
Roydon and the King of Scots
The Frame
'This Cursed Cholmeley'
The Damnable Crew
The Dutch Church Libeller
Ralegh and Essex
The Drury Letter
Marlowe's Liberty
The Reckoning
Epilogue
Appendix: 'False Trails'
Notes
Sources
Index
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The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

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