Great Lives - Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
Download Film director Julien Temple on Elizabethan bad boy Christopher Marlowe
Julien Temple, director of The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, Glastonbury and Absolute Beginners, chooses Christopher Marlowe, writer of brilliant plays including Doctor Faustus and Tamburlaine the Great. "I'm excited to talk about him," he says, "because I've known him for more than 50 years."
The link? An attempt as a student to summon up Marlowe in his old college cellar room.
Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564 - the same year as Shakespeare. He was a spy, a writer, a counterfeiter .. and he famously died in a bar room brawl in Deptford in 1593. Was it an accident, or was he killed deliberately? Helping us negotiate the mythic moments of Marlowe's life is Professor of Shakespeare studies Emma Smith.
Julien Temple's film credits include The Filth and the Fury, Pandaemonium, Earth Girls are Easy and Joe Strummer: The Futureis Unwritten
The presenter is Matthew Parris, the producer in Bristol for BBC Studios is Miles Warde
Published on Monday, 19th August 2024.
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