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This is the bookwry podcast.

I'm Jeff from Neil.

I'm flying solo. Well, not solo.

I'm solo in my ignorance today because Vanessa Diaz is back to tell us something about literary history. I, again, don't know. Well, as per usual, not what I'm talking about. I especially am flying by today as Vanessa's picked some topic. I was trying to think, but I was going to try to guess. I was like, what's current? It's the beginning of the new year, what your interests are. I came up with nothing. I don't even have a bad guess.

I actually switched around, yeah, what would have been semi-timely just because I was like, you know what's going to be funny to talk about if it's just Jeff and I? Like, he did rivalry. Not that that was exactly what I was going to go with, but I thought about it for a second. And I was like, that sounds like maybe awful for Jeff. Anyway, kind of went with a different tack, which was that with so much going on in the world, I was like, what just sounds like fun and popcorn to talk about? And potentially with the English professor in the house. So I went something in that realm. So today we're actually going to talk about Christopher Marlowe, which you know I love to talk about anyway.

Kit Marlowe, all right. So like I always like to kick off by asking, of course, and this feels

like either really stupid or silly or not stupid silly question to ask an English professor, but like,

yeah, what's your relationship to Christopher Marlowe? I actually don't have much of it. I've been

certain. Stephen Greenblatt has a new book out about Christopher Marlowe that I've been interested in, thinking about being interested in. I know a little bit. I know he was sort of the number one rival to Shakespeare. Some people even thought at the time he was superior, though history has suggested that's maybe not the case. Died, I think in a bar fight, if I remember correctly, or shortly thereafter.

A big personality, big figure who unfortunately most people, if they've heard of Christopher Marlowe, I think they get it confused.

They're actually thinking of Jacob Marley from a Christmas Carol. Unfortunately, for Kit Marlowe,

that's where we are, Vanessa. I mean, Elizabethan playwright, much better. I think early on, better known than Shakespeare, but eventually Shakespeare usurped him even its own time. Am I, is that closest to write? What have I got incorrect or not correct? And it's actually the perfect amount for you to know, because there are lots of other juicy bits that we can get into

about his life and times and how everything. got incorrect or not correct. And it's actually the perfect amount for you to know because there are lots of other juicy

bits that we can get into about his life and times and how everything you just said both has

like a kernel of truth and maybe not to it.

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