Review Of Christopher Marlowe s Who Killed Kit

Beginning in 1582, Christopher Marlowe’s attendance mysteriously dropped off. Like everyone in college, students spend money and make money. Sometimes students take a leave of absence for a family emergency, but students give notice to their university. Then why did Christopher Marlowe not do that? In the three terms at Benet s in Cambridge between 1580 and 1581, Marlowe received his allowable as a Parker scholar of twelve or thirteen shillings. In the third term of 1582-83 there is a drop to six shillings indicating only six-week attendance out of the possible thirteen. Marlowe s first drop in attendance from 1582-83 could be explained by illness, however the sums of his fifth year during 1584-85, after he obtained his degree, clearly reflect a drastic change (Trow). With the sudden drop of money and missing years, the question of why he was not in Cambridge emerges. Or, if he was there at school, why did he not collect his shilling a week? Also, according to M.J. Trow in his novel â€Å"Who killed Kit Marlowe,† scholars that study the Elizabethan spies noticed that around the year 1585, Marlowe’s sudden spending habits had increased. â€Å"It was unusual for a son of a poor man on the Parker scholarship at Cambridge who could only afford one shilling of spending money† (Trow, 42). Where did his money go? Why was it missing? To answer this a scholar could look towards the mystery of where could he possibly have gone? Many believe Marlowe’s first assignment occurred