Mainstream scholars stress that any supposedly special knowledge of the aristocracy appearing in the plays can be more easily explained by Shakespeare's life-time of performances before nobility and royalty, and possibly, as Gibson theorises, " by visits to his patron's house, as Marlowe visited Walsingham.

The next day, Marlowe visits General Sternwood, who is still curious about Rusty's whereabouts.

Marlowe visits Mars ' casino, where he asks about Regan, who is supposed to have run off with Mars ' wife.

When Marlowe visits the office of Mavis Weld's agent, he describes the agent using language that is virtually identical to his complaint against Wilder:

* Claire McDowell as Mrs Marlowe

She promises to meet Mrs. Grayle and get her to hire Marlowe to find the necklace.

Mrs. Wade ends up in a sort of trance and attempts to seduce Marlowe, thinking he's a former lover of hers who died ten years earlier in World War II.

Wade ends up drinking himself into a stupor, so Marlowe takes a walk outside, and when he returns Mrs. Wade is ringing the doorbell, saying she forgot her key.

Marlowe gets a call from Spencer regarding Wade's death and he bullies Spencer into taking him to see Mrs. Wade.

Eileen first tries to blame it all on Roger, but Marlowe doesn't buy her story and argues that she killed both Mrs. Lennox and Roger Wade and that Paul Marston ( Lennox ) was actually her first husband, presumed killed in action with the Special Air Service off the coast of Norway or by the Gestapo.

The next morning, Marlowe gets a call that Eileen Wade killed herself, leaving a confession note that she killed Mrs. Lennox and Roger Wade.

The woman Marlowe meets turns out to be Mildred Havelend, alias Mrs. Falbrook and alias Muriel.

* Mrs. Moffat-Peter's housekeeper ; played by Nora Marlowe ; Marlowe replaced Dowling in the cast when she left the series with Cummings.

* In Raymond Chandler's novel The High Window, Phillip Marlowe is initially hired by Mrs. Murdock to locate a coin owned by her late husband, the " Brasher Doubloon ", every owner of which has been murdered.

Mrs. Fallbrook, the owner of the rented house that Lavery lives in, confronts Marlowe on his way out, but Marlowe manages to scare her off without letting her discover the murder.

Marlowe recognizes her as being " Mrs. Fallbrook ", the woman he met in Lavery's house, and accuses her of being the murderer of Lavery.

In the final confrontation at Little Fawn Lake, Marlowe reveals that the murder suspect supposed to be Crystal ( in Los Angeles ) was actually Mildred Haviland, AKA Muriel Chess AKA Mrs. Fallbrook ; she was killed by Al Degarmo ( her former husband ) in a jealous rage ; and that the murder victim supposed to be Muriel Chess ( at Little Fawn Lake ) was actually Crystal Kingsley, who was killed by Mildred Haviland for revenge and profit, assuming the identity of her victim.

As Marlowe is leaving, General Sternwood's older daughter, Mrs. Vivian Rutledge ( Lauren Bacall ), stops him.

* Blanche Friderici as Mrs. Martha Marlowe ( as Blanche Frederici )

It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.

More profound and more disturbing, however, is the moral isolation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.

In a society where everything is for sale, Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought.

He is, like Phillip Marlowe, too alienated to be reliable.

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.

In the late 1930s, Raymond Chandler updated the form with his private detective Philip Marlowe, who brought a more intimate voice to the detective than the more distanced, " operatives report " style of Hammett's Continental Op stories.

Several feature and television movies have been made about the Philip Marlowe character.

Heroes of these novels are typical private eyes very similar to Philip Marlowe.

Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.

During the 1590s, some of the great names of English literature entered their maturity, including William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.

1st edition, 1975, ISBN 0-394-73115-8, 2nd edition, Marlowe & Co., July 1997, ISBN 1-56924-747-1 There are two very different editions.

The October 1934 issue of Black Mask ( magazine ) | Black Mask featured the first appearance of the detective character whom Raymond Chandler would develop into the famous Philip Marlowe.

The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe.

* 1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist ( d. 1593 )

Hawks re-teamed with the newlyweds in 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler.

The dialogue, especially in the newly shot scenes, was full of sexual innuendo supplied by Hawks, and Bogart is convincing and enduring as private detective Philip Marlowe.

* Raymond Chandler, writer of the Marlowe series.

Christopher Marlowe was also called Kit.

Not in Your Lifetime New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998, ISBN 1-56924-739-0.

* 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

* Larry Russ, The Complete Mancala Games Book, Marlowe and company, NY, 2000.

* 1903 – June Marlowe, American actress ( d. 1984 )

Two professors of linguistics have claimed that de Vere wrote not only the works of Shakespeare, but most of what is memorable in English literature during his lifetime, with such names as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, John Lyly, George Peele, George Gascoigne, Raphael Holinshed, Robert Greene, Thomas Phaer, and Arthur Golding being among dozens of further pseudonyms of de Vere.