![]() ![]() A facsimile of his portrait watched us from the wall in the bedroom in that eerie way that old portraits do, the original is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery and is impossibly romantic in that wild haired piratic way that a young Shakespeare and Marlowe are depicted… Christopher Marlowe, son of a Canterbury shoemaker, is probably one of the most lauded connections and the cottage was a minute away from the stupendous Marlowe Theatre. Like Shakespeare, he spent most of his life in London, presumably retiring to Canterbury, although details are scant, apparently he was forced to quit the stage after a scandal. ![]() ![]() ![]() He may well have replaced Shakespeare when he joined the King’s Men in 1616. His name appears as one of the actors in the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays. Apparently Nat was a bit of a ladies man who led a wild life and may have fathered a child with the Duchess of Argyll. His father, John Field, was a puritan who disapproved of all the entertainments his son was involved in. One of the previous owners of the property was Nat Field, an actor and dramatist who would have been a contemporary of Marlowe and Shakespeare. In November I had a big birthday to celebrate and did so in style staying in a quirky 15 th century cottage right in the middle of Canterbury. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |