![]() ![]() From there, Kit's life becomes immersed in the Crown's intelligence work, and suddenly he finds himself spying on the Scottish queen and breaking codes to reveal secret plots against Elizabeth. Kit is in his last year of study at Cambridge when he's approached by none other than Elizabeth's spymaster himself, and sent on an undercover mission to the household of Mary, Queen of Scots. This novel, spanning the years 1585-1593, follows this theory. I knew that he had run in similar circles to William Shakespeare - becoming a notable playwright in London's Bankside district, and that he had died in a horrendous eye-stabbing at a London pub - popularly explained by "a disagreement over the bill." But one thing I hadn't heard before was that he was suspected to have been a covert spy within Sir Francis Walsingham's intelligence network, serving Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I. Tudor enthusiasts, how much do you know about Christopher "Kit" Marlowe? His is a name we hear occasionally throughout our study of Elizabethan history (particularly regarding playwrights and poets), but have you ever spent a lot of time studying his life? I'll be the first to say that I hadn't, and my knowledge of Kit's life was very scant prior to picking up this new novel by Allison Epstein. ![]()
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