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Roy Kindall's Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines: Jouneys through the Elizabethan Underground is a valuable, if knotty, addition to the body of biographical work on Marlow. It focuses on the man who wrote the damning "Note," ascribing to Marlowe various blasphemous and heterodox opnions. Even which Baines this was - there are two, possibly three candidates - is not beyond dispute, and the evidence of his activities is fragmentary and subject to much speculation, fully warranting the subtitle. If the evidence is difficult to follow in itself, Kendall does us no favors by constantly tutoring us on the misdirections of Marlovian biography; for example, responding to a comment by Curtis Breight on Kendall's own work: "I do not wish to discuss the issue of precedence here, as I believe that in roughly equal proportions I follow, contradict, complement, and supersede Nicholl both on this general issue and on others, and in such a variety of ways that a whole chapter could be written on this subject alone" (p. 278). No one should suppose this is an empty threat.