Time Traveler from 2022: Are you gay? Marlowe: No, my boyfriend has fallen ill, and Shakespeare’s play did better than mine, how could I be gay? 😠

*is here because of Will* xD

Spy or Sugar Baby that's the question

why do we ship histotical figures like, its not even just them, tHERES MORE

I do hope you're harvesting all the salt these videos generate. Great video, as usual. Also, totally would watch a gay Shakespeare in Love featuring Marlowe instead of whoever Gwyneth Paltrow was. You could have Marlowe's spy plotline, Shakespeare and Marlowe as rivals/collaborates, friends then lovers. Shakespeare is more professional, not as overtly gay, and a better writer. Marlowe is turbulent, intense, rash, and passionate. The pressures and intrigues of Marlowe's second life come crashing down shortly after Shakespeare resolve their will-they-won't-they drama, resulting in Marlowe's murder. It's a personal tragedy for Shakespeare, that is implied to have made him yet better at writing it. Would be a great watch.

Love how your humour makes learning about history interesting, thank you for making this!

I haven't read much Marlowe and I'd actually never heard about a lot of this before, but I can definitely buy him being attracted to men. I was in a Renaissance class recently and actually did my final paper on how the relationship between Faustus and Mephistopheles is framed as an unhappy marriage. (Barely related, but I just love the idea of playing Faustus as a tragic love story between him and Mephistopheles rather than a straight-up morality play?)

Marlowe was the Jim Morrison of his day

Once again, absolutely brill! keep up the good work FF :D

He is a definite collaborator of Shakespeare Definitely sexually open but not gay in the way we think of that term today. Those lines are modern drawn. However, I guess what’s important is that he certainly wasn’t ‘straight’ and celebrated homerotic love. In that sense, if his example helps people in their understanding of their sexuality then the ‘marlowe was gay’ narrative is broadly part of a good thing. Even if not literally accurate. I’d rather we celebrate his complex sexuality as and have him as a gay icon than get bogged down in being precise Certainly not an atheist, his work and activities in service to the crown show this. He was however - like with his sexuality - spiritually non-conforming and incredibly critical of religious power structures. The specific accusations of atheism were dubious at best, and the list of thought crimes particularly without merit.

Thank you so much for this video, I had just studied a bit of Marlowe's life and works for uni and was intrigued by it and your video is the answer to all my curiosities! And I also started watching Will because of you and am very happy about it! I'd love it if you continued making videos like this about historical/literary figures that are believed to have been lgbt by today's ideas (and that people often don't know about).

I didn't even know who this guy was. Seems pretty convincing evidence to me!

So Marlow is most likely gay and he probably inspired Mercutio... No wonder I connected with the character so much when I played him

As for keeping Marlowe's portrait for to long, scholars are not even certain that the portrait is in fact Marlowe.

Special Effects Horror ? Can you imagine Dr Faustus being played to an illiterate Elizabethan audience ..the demonic stage set...the gunpowder flash and a real demon appears on stage and torments a well drunk audience. It must have been mayhem !! Bit like a Frankie Boyle gig.

He didn't exactly hide the people he decided to bonk in the bum way

Along with the Idea that Marlowe was the inspiration for the characterization of Mercutio in _Romeo & Juliet,_ I've seen another theory that Marlowe was also the inspiration behind Jaques in _As You Like It._

His murder was sanctioned by the Queen. There can be little doubt about this. It's deeply sad how such an illustrious, intelligent, educated, outspoken and conflicted poet would die such a violent and early death. He was ahead of his time 😢 F

Well by that logic I am no fool

More historic figure than author, though she was an opera singer at least so there is something of a connection to your usual fare, but maybe the swordswoman and opera singer Julie d'Aubigny, who once rescued her lover from a nunnery, covering the escape with an act of arson, for future topics?

Awesome video! Got to get me some Marlowe! Already a fan of Shakespeare. Thank you for the hot tip. Best wishes.

Some scholars say that the portrait is not Marlowe, but Robert Greene.

Only Marlowe would know if he was gay or not.

you sound like my history teacher

I love Dr Faustus I just ordered it.

0:21 ...in a barfight.

Great video! But all this information isn't very helpful if you don't post any of your sources.

Yeah friendships between men had a romantic aspect to them too so it makes it tricky (men could kind of 'court' each other ) . Like you could be closer to your male friend than you could ever be to your wife....we have kind of spun that around and now husband and wife are at the top of the intimacy chart.

everytime i read faust i feel the gay between mephsto and faust its my ship ..

So basically if someone never Maries and critizided a religious order of england at the time is a gay atheist?

i totally ship *Willstopher*

Can you make an lgbtq literature/anime and analysis related playlist please? Thanks...

Supergay? Is he like Superman ?

Give me this channel because you not posting and I want to keep it going

How can someone be a heretic _and_ an atheist?

I love your videos on Miyazaki’s films as you have a great insight into them but seriously? Was Christopher Marlowe gay? What difference does it make if he was or wasn’t? If gender equality is what we’re striving for it shouldn’t matter at all.

He was Shakespere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m here from will lol 😝

Yeah exactly Marlow was gay

oh marlow definitely was gay and no one can convince me otherwise.

He was totally bi.

A spy? Certainly. Gay? Almost certainly no. There is nothing in Marlowe's writings that would believe anyone to believe he was gay. Or an atheist. In fact, there is much that indicates the opposite. We do not know if he ever married, or if he had relations with anyone - male or female. I can only think that you have never read Marlowe. As far as "Hero and Leander" goes, you can't write a play or poem based on Greek myth without some homoerotic content - that doesn't reflect on the author. Why don't you quote the passage where Poseidon attempts to seduce Leander: Leander made reply,: "You are deceived; I am no woman, I." And Marlowe certainly shows no sympathy to Edward II in his play. You are just repeating what you have read in some silly master's thesis.