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Christopher Marlow.

Not me. I was watching the Shakespeare documentary (which is called 'In Search of Shakespeare' and if you get the chance, watch it), and this part was about the lost years.

Of course it turns out that he spent a lot of it in Lancashire. I always said that everything good has something to do with Lancashire.

Anyway there was a lot of talk about Kit Marlow. Which was interesting. There was this one line at the end about them both being bright young things but one of them got success and glory while the other one seemed to chase death. And with some of the things Marlow said and did he really must have had a death wish.

But yes, this documentary is a good example of the genre. You know how I was complaining about the Leonardo one being all about his life, art be damned, well this was the opposite, this was all about how the life influenced the art.

And the best bit was that they had various members of the Royal Shakespeare Company acting bits of the plays. Julian Glover (Aragog in Chamber of Secrets or the chief evil Nazi dude in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) did this scene out of Henry VI (part 2 I think), Talbot grieving over his son. And it wasn't anymore than a snippet but I was practically in tears.

It was spellbinding.