This advanced graduate seminar offers (building on existing work by Deborah Willis, Charles Forker and others) a historiography of Marlowe’s biography in fiction and nonfiction from the 1960s to the 2020s, with particular focus on how ways of describing and imagining Marlowe’s sexuality and espionage career appear during three key historical waves in LGBTQ+ history: the Stonewall "gay liberation" movement of the 1960s, the 1990s "marriage equality" movement, and the trans visibility movement of the first decades of the 21stc. Key texts in addition to Marlowe's EDWARD II, DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE, TAMBURLAINE 1 and 2, DR. FAUSTUS, and the so-called “Baines Note” include Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Edward II (composed in 1924 but translated into English by Eric Bentley only in 1966) and Derek Jarman’s 1991 film, the production history and reception of the “Marlowe Sessions” at the Malthouse Theatre in Canterbury (2022), Charles Nicholls’ The Reckoning (1992), Anthony Burgess’s Dead Man in Deptford (1992), and Ros Barber’s controversial The Marlowe Papers (2012) alongside standard biographies such as David Riggs’s (1993).