EJ
's next biography, Portrait of an Actor, 1933, took as its subject the Shakespearean actor Edward Alleyn
(in whom her interest had been aroused while she was at Cambridge
by the teaching of...
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Ngaio Marsh
She named her detective-hero Roderick Alleyn after the Elizabethan actor and theatre entrepreneur Edward Alleyn
(who founded the school where her father had been educated, and a biography of whom by Elizabeth Jenkins
was published...
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Christopher Marlowe
's The Tragicall History of D. Faustus was posthumously published, though this edition may not have been the first.
Marlowe, Christopher. “Introduction”. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, edited by Michael Keefer, Broadview, 1991, p. xi - xcii.
xii
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.