by David Riggs
Scriptural allusions in
Shakespeare influenced by
social mobility
sources for
Strange’s Men
Jewel, Simon
Jones, Mr (lecturer)
Jones, Richard
Jonson, Ben
Jordan, John
Justices of the Peace
Kempe, Will
Kennet, Samuel
King Lear (Shakespeare)
King’s School, Canterbury
Kitchen, Richard
Kyd, Thomas
arrest
death
Nashe’s criticism of
repudiation of CM
servant to Lord Strange
Spanish Tragedy
Lambarde, Justice William
Languet, Hubert
Latimer, Bishop
Latin
hexameters
oratory
poetry
translation
university curriculum
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of
Lennox, Esme Stuart, Duke of
Lennox plot
Lercheimer, Augustine
Leveson, Sir William
Lewgar, Thomas
literacy
litigation
Livy
Lloyd, Ensign David
Lodge, Thomas
logic see also dialectic
Lonicerus, Phillipus
Lord Hunsdon’s Men
Low Countries
Lucan, Civil War
Lucretius
Luther, Martin
Lutherans
Lyly, John
Lyly, William (diplomat)
Lyly, William (grammarian)
magic
male friendship
Manutius, Aldus
Manwood, Sir Roger
Markham, Sir Griffin
Marlowe, Anne (later Cranford)
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-93)
– LIFE
BA course at Cambridge
childhood
coroner’s inquest
counterfeiting activities
criminal charges
death of
‘divine retribution’ myth after death of
grammar school education
intelligence work
MA course and unexplained absences
as a notary
patron-hunting
becomes playwright
and Privy Council
and seminary at Rheims
and Shakespeare
Stanley plot
and Strange’s Men
street-brawling
‘suspicion of murder’ arrest
– PERSONALITY
anti-Trinitarianism
atheism
contemporary comments on
effect of St Bartholomew’s Day massacre on
epicureanism
notoriety
religious belief
rumours about
scientific ideas
sexual identity
social advancement
– WORKS
plays and poems see under individual titles
poetry
seditious book
translations: Lucan, Civil War; Ovid, Amores
Marlowe, Dorothy (later Graddell)
Marlowe, Jane (later Moore)
Marlowe, John (CM’s father)
Marlowe, Katherine (née Arthur) (CM’s mother)
Marlowe, Margaret (later Jordan)
Marlowe, Mary (CM’s sister)
Marlowe, Thomas (CM’s brother)
Marranos
Marshall, John
Marshalsea prison
Marston, John
martyrdom
Catholic
Protestant
Marvell, Andrew
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary I, Queen
Massacre at Paris: With the Death of the Duke of Guise (Marlowe)
memorial reconstruction
resemblance to Edward II
role of intelligence work advertised in
scholar and gentleman confrontation
mathematics
Maude, Bernard
Maunder, Henry
Mayne, Cuthbert
Medea
Mela, Pomponius, Description of the World
Melanchthon, Philip
Mendoza, Bernardino de
Meres, Francis
metre
iambic pentameter
Ovid
quantitative
see also blank verse
Mexia, Pedro
Middleton, Thomas
middling classes
education
poets
student-poets
Milton, John
Mirandola, Pico della
Montelupo, Raffaele da, Jupiter Kissing Ganymede
Moody, Michael
Moore, John
Moore, Richard
morality plays
Morgan, Charles
Morrison, Fynes
Mulcaster, Richard
Munday, Anthony
Munster, Sebastian
Musaeus
Musculus, Wolfgang, Commonplaces of the Christian Religion
Musurus, Marcus
mythology
Nashe, Thomas
on atheism
Dido, Queen of Carthage
on Henry VI
on London suburbs
public letter to the Gentlemen Students
natural philosophy
Nero, Emperor
Netherlands see also Low Countries
New Testament
Newgate prison
Newington Butts playhouse
Nicholl, Charles
Nicholls, Constable Allen
Noel, Sir Henry
Norgate, Master Robert
Northbrooke, John
Northumberland, Henry Percy, Duke of
Norton, Thomas
Norton Folgate (suburb of London)
Nowell, Alexander, A Cathecism or First Instruction of Christian Religion
Old Testament
optics
oratory see rhetoric
Orrell, Captain George
Ortellius, Abraham, The Theatre of the World
Orwin, Thomas
Osbertson, John
Ovid
Amores
creation story
Heroides
Metamorphoses
metre
and Virgil
Ovington, Thomas
Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of
Oxford University
Paris
parish priests
Parker, John
Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury
Parma, Duke of
Parrot, Henry
Parry, Blanche
Parry, William
Pashley, Christopher
Passionate Pilgrim, The
‘Passionate Shepherd to His Love, The’ (Marlowe) see ‘Come live with me and be my love’
patronage
Paul’s Boys
Peacham, Henry
Peele, George
Pembroke, Mary Sidney, Countess of
Pembroke’s Men
Penry, John
Perkins, William
Perne, Robert
Persons, Father Robert
Petowe, Henry
petty schools
Phelippes, Thomas
Philip II, King of Spain
philosophy
physics
piracy
Pius V, Pope
Place, William
plague
Plato
playhouses
closures
see also individual playhouses
playwrights
anonymity of popular
Canterbury-born
criticism of popular
and intelligence gatherers
Sidney’s scorn for popu
lar
Plessington, Thomas
Pliny, Natural History
Plutarch
poets and poetry
and astronomy
and class
erotic
falsification of nature
humanism
and intelligence work
pastoral
and rhetoric
Tamburlaine
Thomas Nashe on see also metre
Pole, Cardinal Reginald
Poley, Robert
and agents in Low Countries
and death of CM
seditious pamphlets
Stanley plot intelligence
Polybius
Poole, John
Pope, Alexander
Pope, Thomas
Potter, William
poverty
Pownall, Barnabas and Philemon
Presbyterianism
Presson, Lactantius
Privy Council
accused of closet atheism
CM’s loyalty
investigation into CM
passport control
playhouse closures
Sir Roger Manwood and
probability
prophecy
prose
prosody see metre
prostitution
Protestant immigrants
Protestant martyrdom
Protestantism see also Huguenots
Proverbs, Book of
Prynne, William
Ptolemy
On Astronomical Prediction
Geography
public executions
Puckering, Thomas
Puritanism
anti-theatrical movement
universities
Puttenham, George
Queen’s Men
Quintilian
Rainolds, John
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Ramus, Peter
Rankins, William
recusants
Regiomantus
religion
conformist
dialecticians’ understanding of
in The Jew of Malta
mocked in Tamburlaine
scepticism and
in universities
see also Catholics and Catholicism, Puritanism
religious instruction
Revelation (of St John the Divine), Book of
Reynard, John
Rheims, seminary at
rhetoric
Richard II (Shakespeare)
Richardson, Gerard
Rippon, Roger
Roe, William, Lord Mayor of London
Roman Empire
Rose playhouse
Royal Commission on heresy
Royden, Matthew
Rudyerd, Edmund
Sabinus, George
Sackville, Thomas
St Bartholomew’s Day massacre (1572)
St Paul
Savage, Jerome
Savage, John
Scales, Thomas
Scaliger, Joseph C.
scepticism
science
Second Coming of Christ
secret service
after Walsingham’s death
Catholic prisoners
CM investigation for Privy Council
double agents
intelligence fieldwork
Jew of Malta
Low Countries
and playwrights
and poets
subsequent careers of agents
theatrical representations of
Walsingham and
sedition
Selimus (anonymous)
Seneca
Separatists
Seton, John, Dialectic … with annotations by Peter Carter
Shakespeare, William
As You Like It
birth
Book of Sir Thomas More, The
and CM
Greene’s attack on
Hamlet
Henry VI
and Pembroke’s Men
Richard II
Venus and Adonis
Shawe, Michael
shoemakers
Sidney, Sir Philip
Apology for Poetry
Arcadia
Astrophel and Stella
attempted assassination of
on geometry
Sidney, Sir Robert, governor of Flushing
Simon Magus
Sixtus V, Pope
Skerres, Nicholas
slander
Smith, John
social hierarchy
social mobility
sodomy see also homosexuality
Sophocles, Antigone
sorcery
Southwell, Father Robert
Spain
Spanish Armada
Spenser, Edmund
Faerie Queene, The
Spies, Johann
spies see secret service
Stafford, Sir Edward
Stanley, Sir William
Stanley plot
Strabo, Geography
Strange, Ferdinando Stanley, Lord
Strange’s Men
Book of Sir Thomas More, The
Jew of Malta
Massacre at Paris
Stransham, George (alias George Potter)
Stronge, Richard
Stuart, Arabella
Stuart, Esme see Lennox, Duke of
Stubbes, John
Sulpitius, Johannes
Susenbrotus, Epitome of Schemes and Tropes
Swan Theatre
Sweeting, Father William
Sweeting, Leonard
Swift, Hugo
syllables see also metre
syllogism
Tacitus
‘Tamberlaine’ (anonymous rhymester)
Tamburlaine the Great (Marlowe)
atheism
beauty and violence soliloquy
blank verse
contemporary imitations
cosmography
death
dramatization of kingship
Edward Alleyn in role of
Faerie Queene passage restaged in
hyperbole
and Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy
Lucan’s influence on
magic
massacre in
mockery of religion
notorious images in
persuasive speech
poverty and social mobility in
printed text
public success of
Shakespeare influenced by
source for
three coloured tents custom
Tarlton, Richard
Tasso, Torquato
Taylor, Thomas
Terence
Theatre playhouse, Shoreditch
Thevet, André
Thexton, Robert
Thorpe, Thomas
Throckmorton plot (1583)
Tilney, Charles
Tilney, Edmund
Tipping, James
Tipping, John
torture
Tower of London
Travers, Walter
treason
Trismegistus, Hermes
Troublesome Reign of King John, The
Tudor, Sir Owen
Tully
Turberville, George
Ubaldini, Patruccio
Umberfield, Richard
Unitarians
universities
dress code
homosexuality
as recruitment ground
religion
and the Vagrancy Act 205 see also Cambridge University; Oxford University
Urry, William
Vagrancy Act (1572)
Vaughan, Reverend William
Vautrollier, Thomas
Verro, Sebastian
versification see metre
Verstegan, Richard
Virgil
Aeneid
astronomy
creation
metre
Vives, Juan Luis
Walsingham, Lady Audrey
Walsingham, Sir Francis
Babington plot
and CM
death of
Lennox plot
and Robert Poley
secret service
Throckmorton plot
Walsingham, Thomas
Walton, Izaak, Complete Angler
Warner, Walter
Watson, Thomas
Aminta Gaudia
as double agent
fatal stabbing of William Bradley
origins
Sophocles translation
and Thomas Walsingham
Webbe, Sir William, Lord Mayor of London
Webster, John
Whetstone, George
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury
Whitney, John
William of Orange, Prince
Williams, Richard
Wilson, Robert
Wilson, Thomas
Windsor, Edward
Windsor boys
witch-hunts
Wither, George
Wolfe, John
Wolsey, Cardinal
Woodleff, Drew
Wright, William
Yeomans, Joan
Yeomans, William
Yorke, Edmund
Young, Henry
by the same author
SHAKESPEARE’S HEROICAL HISTORIES
BEN JONSON: A LIFE
About the Author
DAVID RIGGS is a professor of English at Stanford University. He lectures regularly at leading universities in the United States and Great Britain and has written articles for The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Shakespeare Quarterly, among others. His previous books include Ben Jonson: A Life.
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Copyright © 2004 by David Riggs
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Originally published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Riggs, David.
The world of Christopher Marlowe / David Riggs.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
“A John Macrae book.”
Originally published: London : Faber, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7755-1
ISBN-10: 0-8050-7755-3
1. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564–1593. 2. Dramatists, English—Early modern, 1500–1700—Biography. I. Title.
PR2673.R54 2005
822'.3—dc22
2004054866
First American Edition 2005
eISBN 9781466862340
First eBook edition: December 2013
