The Complete Plays PDF Christopher Marlowe

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It was what you accused someone else of. The unity of Christendom, at once political and religious, was split by a confessional division which turned each side’s deepest spiritual convictions to derision. For Protestants, Catholicism was a murderous conspiracy to uphold the hegemony of Spain and the papacy; in Catholic eyes, Protestants were merely seditious heretics. Much of continental Europe was involved in religious wars. Marlowe knew this world – he had been in France as well as in Holland14 – and it colours the mockeries and solemnities of the plays.

It is literally the setting of The Massacre at Paris, which dramatizes the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572) and its aftermath. The play opens with an ecumenical marriage, but within moments the cast is divided by the key ritual that separated Catholics from Protestants: the Catholics go to mass ‘to honour this so

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