08-05-2025
Marlowe's killing solved
From The Times, May 8, 1925
Two months ago, in view of the revived project to complete the unfinished memorial at Canterbury to Christopher Marlowe, we published an article by Dr FS Boas, which contained the announcement that an unknown document giving authoritative details of Marlowe's death would shortly be published.
The announcement must have tantalized many who knew how unsatisfactory were the current accounts of the poet's end. If so, now that the secret is out, expectations will not be disappointed. The truth, the world now learns, has been lying all this time in Chancery-lane, at the Record Office, and it has fallen to a Harvard scholar, Dr J Leslie Hotson, to reveal it, in a work just published by him simultaneously in America
