Ros Barber’s novel, The Marlowe Papers, follows the young spy and playwright, Christopher Marlowe, who has had to fake his own death to escape the justice of enemies of the state. He has escaped to Italy and from his exile continues to write plays published in the name of a businessman from Stratford-On-Avon called William Shakespeare. We talk about the novel, and whether there really is any basis to the idea that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare.
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