About the Authors:
Roy Kendall has been a Guest Professor at the University of Connecticut, a Fellow of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, and a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. He has created and currently oversees the advanced dramatic writing program for New York University's prestigious Tisch School of hte Arts's performing and media arts program in London. He has a Ph.D. from the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham at Stratford-upon-Avon).

This book contains a thorough re-evaluation of the problems surrounding the activities, dramatic, literary, and otherwise, of Christopher Marlowe, particularly in his relations with his associate Richard Baines, in the latter part of Marlowe's life. It is the first full-length biography of Richard Baines, the object of which is to act as a lens through which to view standard Marlovian biography from a new angle and with a fresh eye. This new book thus comprises two interlinking biographical studies which inform both literary criticism and early modern history, puts the Baines/Marlowe relationship into a new perspective, and demonstrates the symbiotic relationship that existed in actuality between the two men in their lifetimes and which, of its nature, sets up a literary, historiographical, cultural, and scholastic virtual relationship on the web of history.