Kit Marlowe
@kitmarlowe1564.co.uk
Canterburie, Cambridge & Banckes Syde. Occasionall spye. Elizabethan plaiemaker & poet of scurrilitie. Muses' darlinge. Wit lent from heauen, but vices sent from hell.
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Kit Marlowe
@kitmarlowe1564.co.uk
· Dec 24
#TheAdventOfMarlowe
XXIV. NATIVITY PLAY
Tis the final scene from the Kit Marlowe aduent calendar today, Christmas Eue. I hope thou hast enjoied it. Merry yuletide!
#ChristopherMarlowe #EarlyModernDrama #AdventCalendar
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🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live recording of Doctor Faustus (1604 version) from our Wyrd Revels 😈 including the pre-show with a section of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Greene for fun.
More next week! #demons #devils www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
More next week! #demons #devils www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
Doctor Faustus (1604) - Rough Mix (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare
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December 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's the rough mix of our live recording of Doctor Faustus (1604 version) from our Wyrd Revels 😈 including the pre-show with a section of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay by Greene for fun.
More next week! #demons #devils www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
More next week! #demons #devils www.patreon.com/posts/doctor...
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4 December 1582: We've seen all year that the Duke of Guise is burning with zeal to attempt a highly ambitious enterprise, to invade Scotland and England and force a return to Catholicism. Early in the year, he was planning to use Lennox's ascendancy in Scotland to make that a ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
4 December 1582: We've seen all year that the Duke of Guise is burning with zeal to attempt a highly ambitious enterprise, to invade Scotland and England and force a return to Catholicism. Early in the year, he was planning to use Lennox's ascendancy in Scotland to make that a ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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Mon 8 Dec @ 6.30pm online
BEASTS OF BANKSIDE
Dr Liam Lewis, Dr Lizzie Wright
& Professor Hannah O’Regan
The @archaeobears.bsky.social team share their latest research into the lives of the animals performing in the bear-baiting arenas that stood next to The Rose.
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
BEASTS OF BANKSIDE
Dr Liam Lewis, Dr Lizzie Wright
& Professor Hannah O’Regan
The @archaeobears.bsky.social team share their latest research into the lives of the animals performing in the bear-baiting arenas that stood next to The Rose.
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Mon 8 Dec @ 6.30pm online
BEASTS OF BANKSIDE
Dr Liam Lewis, Dr Lizzie Wright
& Professor Hannah O’Regan
The @archaeobears.bsky.social team share their latest research into the lives of the animals performing in the bear-baiting arenas that stood next to The Rose.
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
BEASTS OF BANKSIDE
Dr Liam Lewis, Dr Lizzie Wright
& Professor Hannah O’Regan
The @archaeobears.bsky.social team share their latest research into the lives of the animals performing in the bear-baiting arenas that stood next to The Rose.
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
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New blog post up, in which I give up all the gory details on my devilish novel-in-progress, and give some extremely depressing statistics that demonstrate how little the experience of being a sexual assault survivor has changed in the past 400 years. #booksky #earlymodern #histfic
Research Diaries #2: Hell is empty & all the devils are here.
Hi. This is me poking my head out of my writing cave, wanting to talk about a work-in-progress for a minute. It’s Schrodinger’s book, as it stands. But with any luck – and a lot m…
hessephillips.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
New blog post up, in which I give up all the gory details on my devilish novel-in-progress, and give some extremely depressing statistics that demonstrate how little the experience of being a sexual assault survivor has changed in the past 400 years. #booksky #earlymodern #histfic
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I started a Substack!
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
On Shakespeare and Not Shakespeare
New writing about Shakespearean culture (and beyond), arising from new research projects...
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I started a Substack!
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
Regular essays & short introductions to all things Tudor & Shakespearean culture & entertainment + sharing findings from the archives and more!
Please do consider subscribing for #Shakespeare #earlymodern #theatre #heritage content.
open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...
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Sofonisba Anguissola of Cremona, declaring herself in miniature, 1556. Inscription assures us that she painted from a mirror, in Cremona.
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Sofonisba Anguissola of Cremona, declaring herself in miniature, 1556. Inscription assures us that she painted from a mirror, in Cremona.
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Join us online this Monday evening as Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social – President of the Marlowe Society of America, and former President of the Australian & New Zealand Shakespeare Association – uncovers the connections between ale houses and playhouses in early modern London.
Monday 10 November
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
@ 7.30pm online
PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES
Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture.
Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on
November 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Join us online this Monday evening as Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social – President of the Marlowe Society of America, and former President of the Australian & New Zealand Shakespeare Association – uncovers the connections between ale houses and playhouses in early modern London.
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"From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits,
And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,
We'll lead you to the stately tent of war,
Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine
Threatening the world with high astounding terms,
And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword."
#Marlowe #Tamburlaine
And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,
We'll lead you to the stately tent of war,
Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine
Threatening the world with high astounding terms,
And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword."
#Marlowe #Tamburlaine
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
"From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits,
And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,
We'll lead you to the stately tent of war,
Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine
Threatening the world with high astounding terms,
And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword."
#Marlowe #Tamburlaine
And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,
We'll lead you to the stately tent of war,
Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine
Threatening the world with high astounding terms,
And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword."
#Marlowe #Tamburlaine
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‘If the violent, sexually transgressive, atheistical and generally self-destructive Marlowe had had a motto, then “What nourishes me destroys me” would have been more than appropriate.’
M.W. Rowe evaluates new evidence concerning the playwright’s only known portrait.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
M.W. Rowe evaluates new evidence concerning the playwright’s only known portrait.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
M.W. Rowe | But is it Marlowe?
In late 1952, builders working in the Old Court of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, removed two boards from under an...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
‘If the violent, sexually transgressive, atheistical and generally self-destructive Marlowe had had a motto, then “What nourishes me destroys me” would have been more than appropriate.’
M.W. Rowe evaluates new evidence concerning the playwright’s only known portrait.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
M.W. Rowe evaluates new evidence concerning the playwright’s only known portrait.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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In the heart of the Kentish Weald, at the centre of the village of Charing, lies a collection of ancient flint buildings that comprise the remains of a majestic archbishops’ palace dating back to the eighth century. Read the full story:
spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/26/a...
spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/26/a...
October 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
In the heart of the Kentish Weald, at the centre of the village of Charing, lies a collection of ancient flint buildings that comprise the remains of a majestic archbishops’ palace dating back to the eighth century. Read the full story:
spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/26/a...
spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/26/a...
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𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆
“Why should a king be subject to a priest? / Proud Rome, that hatchest such imperial grooms . . . .” (𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘐𝘐)
“Why should a king be subject to a priest? / Proud Rome, that hatchest such imperial grooms . . . .” (𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘐𝘐)
A rift that took 500 years to repair: King Charles prays with the pope
Joint prayer in Sistine Chapel is symbolic act of rapprochement between Catholic church and Church of England after centuries of division
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆
“Why should a king be subject to a priest? / Proud Rome, that hatchest such imperial grooms . . . .” (𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘐𝘐)
“Why should a king be subject to a priest? / Proud Rome, that hatchest such imperial grooms . . . .” (𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘐𝘐)
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Had the pleasure of seeing this incredible digital reconstruction of medieval Barrow-upon-Trent at a heritage event this weekend. It's kinda mesmerising. Love this level of detail. Grab a cuppa and give it a watch!
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
Medieval Barrow upon Trent c1300 CE
YouTube video by albino igil
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October 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Had the pleasure of seeing this incredible digital reconstruction of medieval Barrow-upon-Trent at a heritage event this weekend. It's kinda mesmerising. Love this level of detail. Grab a cuppa and give it a watch!
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
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Henri III is sending an envoy to Scotland, La Mothe-Fenelon, a former ambassador to England. The duke of Guise, whose hopes of a glorious invasion of Scotland and England to restore Catholicism have dampened a bit lately, also writes to James, hoping perhaps to salvage something from the mess. 5/
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Henri III is sending an envoy to Scotland, La Mothe-Fenelon, a former ambassador to England. The duke of Guise, whose hopes of a glorious invasion of Scotland and England to restore Catholicism have dampened a bit lately, also writes to James, hoping perhaps to salvage something from the mess. 5/
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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver
A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.
news.sky.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
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Born on this day in 1571, in Milan, the incomparably brilliant Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Here (more or less) by himself. Shocked at being dead.
September 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Born on this day in 1571, in Milan, the incomparably brilliant Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Here (more or less) by himself. Shocked at being dead.
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Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
(Doctor Faustus, Epilogue)
#earlymodernmonday
Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
(Doctor Faustus, Epilogue)
#earlymodernmonday
Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint
September 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
(Doctor Faustus, Epilogue)
#earlymodernmonday
Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
(Doctor Faustus, Epilogue)
#earlymodernmonday
Production shot of David Angland & Jamie O'Neill taken by #CharlieFlint
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'This glamorous Life writing began early. Weeks before Marlowe’s untimely and violent death, a shady intelligencer called Richard Baines had drafted the outline of the playwright’s afterlife'
Emma Smith: Our ideas of Christopher Marlowe
Emma Smith: Our ideas of Christopher Marlowe
Early modern autofiction?
www.the-tls.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
'This glamorous Life writing began early. Weeks before Marlowe’s untimely and violent death, a shady intelligencer called Richard Baines had drafted the outline of the playwright’s afterlife'
Emma Smith: Our ideas of Christopher Marlowe
Emma Smith: Our ideas of Christopher Marlowe
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'Shakespeare's Globe Theatre' by Fiona Horan
fionahoran.com
fionahoran.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
'Shakespeare's Globe Theatre' by Fiona Horan
fionahoran.com
fionahoran.com
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The queen has an ambassador from the King of Navarre, the future Henry IV of France, visiting her; apparently Henry has a plan to reconquer part of Navarre from Spain and wants support. I don't think anything came of this. 5/
September 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The queen has an ambassador from the King of Navarre, the future Henry IV of France, visiting her; apparently Henry has a plan to reconquer part of Navarre from Spain and wants support. I don't think anything came of this. 5/
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Our Shakespeare in London display is free and open until 2nd October!
#EarlyModern #History #Archives
buff.ly/BG59csM
🧵 6/6
#EarlyModern #History #Archives
buff.ly/BG59csM
🧵 6/6
Shakespeare in London
See rarely displayed treasures relating to William Shakespeare at The London Archives from 30 June until 25 September 2025.
www.thelondonarchives.org
September 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Our Shakespeare in London display is free and open until 2nd October!
#EarlyModern #History #Archives
buff.ly/BG59csM
🧵 6/6
#EarlyModern #History #Archives
buff.ly/BG59csM
🧵 6/6
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We're back with another #DiscoverTLA and this time we're looking at #CivitasLondinum, one of the oldest maps in our collection currently on show as part of our #Shakespeare in London display
Sheet 8 showing the southern part of the City and Southbank
📷 LPA 346649
🧵 1/6
Sheet 8 showing the southern part of the City and Southbank
📷 LPA 346649
🧵 1/6
September 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
We're back with another #DiscoverTLA and this time we're looking at #CivitasLondinum, one of the oldest maps in our collection currently on show as part of our #Shakespeare in London display
Sheet 8 showing the southern part of the City and Southbank
📷 LPA 346649
🧵 1/6
Sheet 8 showing the southern part of the City and Southbank
📷 LPA 346649
🧵 1/6
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Keep hearing some buzzing about performing Marlowe more... obviously we're doing Doctor Faustus twice in October so... you know... do the thing.
If you want to.
It's not like you're signing your life away.
In blood.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
If you want to.
It's not like you're signing your life away.
In blood.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
August 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Keep hearing some buzzing about performing Marlowe more... obviously we're doing Doctor Faustus twice in October so... you know... do the thing.
If you want to.
It's not like you're signing your life away.
In blood.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
If you want to.
It's not like you're signing your life away.
In blood.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...
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2/2 Tournament attended by Catherine de' Medici, Henry of Navarre, and more: Lucas de Heere cartoon after Caron design 1582.
August 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
2/2 Tournament attended by Catherine de' Medici, Henry of Navarre, and more: Lucas de Heere cartoon after Caron design 1582.
Reposted by Kit Marlowe
Pleased to buy a copy of the #Faversham 2026 calendar which contrasts the same street/place/building from days gone by with the current day. Beautifully done & lovely to see similarities & differences. If you’re visiting for #Hopfest this weekend pop in the #InformationCentre to get a copy.
August 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Pleased to buy a copy of the #Faversham 2026 calendar which contrasts the same street/place/building from days gone by with the current day. Beautifully done & lovely to see similarities & differences. If you’re visiting for #Hopfest this weekend pop in the #InformationCentre to get a copy.