Louis Ule's
Christopher Marlowe 1564-1607: A Biography
Title Page
Table of Contents
Preface to the 1994 Private Printing
1. Origins and Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . see where Marlowe spent his childhood
2. The King's School, Canterbury . . . . . . . . . . 11. . . see photos
3. The Role of John Marlowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4. Marlowe at Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 33-47 . . . 48-62 . . . see photos
5. The University Wits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63-73
6. Christopher Marlowe in London . . . . . . . . 74-89 . . . 90-105
7. A Canterbury Wedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
8. The Upstart Courtier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
9. A Groatsworth of Wit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-143 . . . 144-152
(Compare with Peter Farey's and Daryl Pinksen's Edward Alleyn theories in The Marlowe Society's
Research Journal 6, numbers 3 and 4 in the lis of essayst.
)
10. William Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153-163 . . . 164-172
11. The Taming of The Shrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173-181*
12. Delia, Mistress of the Muses . . . . . . . . . . . 181-197 . . . 198-209
13. The School of Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210
14. The Mystery of Marlowe's Death . . . . . . . 226-237 . . . 238-250 . . . photos and illustrations
15. The Unfortunate Traveler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
16. Hugh Sanford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 . . . compare Sanford's handwriting to Marlowe's
17. The Grand Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285-303 . . . 304-315
18. Wilton House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316-335 . . . 336-345
19. A Midsummer Night's Dream . . . . . . . . . .346-357 . . . 358-366
20. Carisbrooke Castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367-397 . . . 382-397 . . . see Ule's William Cotton
21. The Merry Wives of Windsor . . . . . . . . . . 398-411 . . . 412-424
22. The Isle of Dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
23. Valladolid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445-459 . . . 460-471
24. The Court of King James . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472-487 . . . 488-497
25. Pembroke's Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
26. Literary Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .516
27. The First Folio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537-557 . . . 558-566
28. The Face of Old Billy Our Bard . . . . . . . . 567
Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .592
* In Chapter 11 Mr. Ule refers to the faking of Marlowe's death ocurring in 1594. This
was a typing error, the year was 1593.