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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe.
National Review
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August 1, 1994|
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By Charles Nicholl (Hardcourt, Brace, 413 pp., $24.95)
ON MAY 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe was killed in the port town of Deptford, a few miles downriver of London. He was stabbed through the eye by a certain Ingram Frizer in a dispute (so said Frizer and the two other men present, Robert Poley and Nicholas Skeres) over "the reckoning"--the bill for the day's entertainment. Frizer was eventually acquitted on grounds of self-defense.
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