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Anna Castle’s Kit Marlowe

27 Thursday Aug 2015

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Anna Castle, Cambridge, christopher marlowe, Corpus Christi College, francis bacon, historical mystery, historical novel, mysteries

DbDAnd so, as I said I would, I read the second volume of Anna Castle’s Francis wonderful Francis Bacon series.* In Death by Disputation the action moves from London to Cambridge, with Tom Clarady installed at Corpus Christi college – ostensibly to get his degree. But of course, there is more to it: Tom is there as Bacon and Lord Burleigh’s intelligencer, to uncover a Puritan conspiracy against Queen, State, and Church. Who is smuggling incendiary Puritan tracts from the Low Countries, rallying religious malcontents and generally raising mischief? And then Tom’s tutor** – the man who informed Lord Burleigh in the first place – is found murdered, and Tom’s commission suddenly becomes a good deal riskier…
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Small Regrets

21 Tuesday Oct 2014

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Cambridge, Erasmus Project

Bridge_of_Sighs,_CambridgeBack in the day, when it came to my Erasmus year, I really meant to chose – and could have chosen – Cambridge.

Then I let my supervisor talk me into choosing Cardiff instead.

And mind, I was happy in Cardiff, and the scholarship there covered a full academic year instead of the six months I would have had in Cambridge, and there were all sorts academical and technical reasons why Cardiff was a good idea…

And yet, some twenty years later, I see things like this – and still regret it a little.

Oh well…

The other Birthday Boy

18 Saturday Oct 2014

Posted by la Clarina in History, Theatre

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Cambridge, Canterbury, christopher marlowe, Elizabeth Bear, Fourth Monkey, Marlowe Dramatic Society

Marlowe1A little Kit Marlowe, today.

First, Andrew Dickson’s nice article from The Guardian, tracing parallels with Shakespeare, and suggesting the What-if every Marlowe enthusiast worth the name must play at least once – and no, it has nothing to do with Kit and Will being one and the same.

Then a link to an overview of what the Cambridge Marlowe Dramatic Society is doing this year to celebrate.

Oh, and then there is Canterbury-based company Fourth Monkey: they are having a Marlowe 450 celebratory season – including a Massacre at Paris in the cathedral crypt, that can’t have been anything short of thrilling.

And let me add, as a finishing touch, novelist Elizabeth Bear’s thoughts on Kit in Cambridge and the Corpus Christi and Grafton portraits – posted on her blog as she did her field research for The Stratford Man.

Because, you know, it isn’t just about Shakespeare, after all.

 

 

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