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The play The Reckoning of Kit and Little Boots by Nat Cassidy, examines the lives of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe and Caligula, with the fictional conceit that Marlowe was working on a play about Caligula around the time of his own murder.

It emphasizes the similarities between the two characters — both stabbed to death at 29, both in part as a result to their controversial perspectives on religion.

The play focuses on Caligula's love for his sister Drusilla, and his deep-rooted loathing for Tiberius.

It received its world premiere in New York City in June 2008.