The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe.

From: National Review | Date: August 1, 1994| Author: Bridges, Linda | Copyright information

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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