The conference’s special panel on Christopher Marlowe offered a range of approaches to Marlowe’s plays, but all three highlighted themes of subjugation and violence, perhaps hinting at factors that made Marlowe’s plays so shocking and influential when first performed.
"When in Toledo there I studied, It was my chance to write a tragedy - See here my lords - [He shows them a book] Which long forgot, I found this other day. Now would your lordships favour me so much As but to grace me with your acting it - I mean each one of you to play a part - Assure you it will prove most passing strange And wondrous plausible to that assembly."