How can you get a better tagline than Anne Hathaway IS Anne Hathaway?
Lets crack kick off the history books and see what we can find in The Marriage of True Minds.
Will wrestles with his future should he return to Stratford and be a family man/glove-maker?
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Or follow what he believes is his destiny in London?
He agrees and invites Anne and the children to stay in London.
Historically, we have no way of knowing if any of this scenario is plausible.
The action is set in 1589, and the years 1585-1592 are what historians call Shakespeares lost years.
At some point in this era he left Stratford for London and began writing plays.
In the meantime, we get a lesson in the gruesome origins of nursery rhymes.
But according to our Topcliffe, Silver bells and cockle shells, those were her instruments of torture.
And How does your garden grow?
that would be the cemetery garden containing all the people she executed for heresy.
Lets maybe agree to retire nursery rhymes?
Instead, he accepts Wills excuse for not writing a play and offers to help him write one later.
It may be a bit of a Shakespearean Easter egg that Southwell hides on Silver Street.
When he is resurrected (i.e.
dug out of the ground), he goes to visit a sickly-looking older man he calls my love.
The real Christopher Marlowe was very much preoccupied with death, the supernatural, and the occult.
But not in the way we might think of it today.
Rival playwright Robert Greene linked Marlowe to blasphemy and magic (Greene apparently hated everyone).
As described, this scene actually comes pretty close to Marlowes experiences in this weeks episode.
In the play, Marlowe blends anxieties over witchcraft with the precepts of Renaissance occult philosophy.
