James Wilson takes a look at Marlowe's Fate:
"Let's get ready to rumble!" In this corner the literary heavyweight William Shakespeare! And in this corner the challenger Christopher Marlowe! For more than a century scholars have debated, disputed, and defended Shakespeare as the true author of the works bearing his name. There have been countless conferences, dissertations, and books on the subject, but there has not been (as far as I know) a knockdown, ten-round boxing match—with puppets—between Shakespeare and Marlowe squaring off in the ring. This cultural battle royale is the madcap centerpiece of the otherwise very earnest Marlowe's Fate, a new play written and directed by Peter B. Hodges. . . . |
