Christopher Marlowe, A Murder in Deptford

Christopher Marlowe was a genius, a heretic, and almost certainly a spy.
 In the shadowy world of Elizabethan London, where faith was treason and a careless word could mean death, Marlowe moved easily among informers, torturers, and men who vanished without trace. He wrote blazing poetry by candlelight and carried state secrets by day. He drank with killers. He argued with atheists. He lived on the edge of the gallows.

In this episode of Rearview Mirror Chronicles, we follow the brief, incendiary life of Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare’s dangerous contemporary and perhaps his darkest mirror. From taverns thick with smoke and lies to the final violent afternoon in Deptford, this is a story of espionage, betrayal, forbidden ideas, and a death that still refuses to explain itself.

This is not the tale of a quiet scholar.
 This is the story of a man who walked too close to fire, and paid the price.