Blame it on the Belgians

Hilary Mantel

  • The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
    Cape, 413 pp, £19.99, June 1992, ISBN 0 224 03100 7

‘You don’t want to see him,’ said the porter at Corpus, when Charles Nicholl went to Cambridge to look at the portrait that is probably Christopher Marlowe. ‘He died in a tavern brawl.’

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