In “Marlowe,” somebody quotes Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan poet and playwright. There’s also a reference to James Joyce on the subject of tea.

“Lightborne” begins in the spring of 1593 when poet, playwright, and former spy Christopher Marlowe is arrested on charges of treason, heresy, and sodomy, all of which are punishable by death.

Christopher Marlowe (c.1564-1593) was an English playwright and poet of the Elizabethan Era. He was the first playwright of that time to consistently present his work in blank verse—poems ...