and restore the imprisoned Queen Elizabeth. Louise Welsh's 2004 novel Tamburlaine Must Die about Marlowe's last days is an "alternative fictional account as to what really went on". It is written as a journal-entry by Marlowe. In History Play (2005) by Rodney Bolt, Marlowe fakes his death and flees England. Marlowe plays a major role in Elizabeth Bear's The Promethean Age novels (2006–2013). In this story Marlowe and Shakespeare had a secret, deeply emotional homosexual love affair and many of Shakespeare's Sonnets were written to express his love for Marlowe. Marlowe was not assassinated in 1593 but was taken into Faerie where he became the lover of the witch Morgan le Fay. He also appears in Bear's short story "This Tragic Glass" (2004). M. J. Trow's The Kit Marlowe Series (2011–), depicts Marlowe as a detective and spy for Sir Francis Walsingham. Trow has also written non-fiction about Marlowe. In Ros Barber's verse novel The Marlowe Papers (2012), Marlowe looks back on his past and faked death and his writing of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare. It won the Desmond Elliott Prize for 2013. Marlowe appears in Shadow of Night (2012) by Deborah Harkness, the second book in the All Souls trilogy. Marlowe, a daemon, is one of many historical figures in this story. Geoffrey Aggeler's Horses of the Night (2016) provides a fictional account of Marlowe's writing career, spying activities, and death. Michelle Butler Hallett's This Marlowe (2016) explores the political context of 1593 England and relationship between Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe, and gives an account of Kyd's arrest and interrogation and Marlowe's death. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (2017) by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland features Marlowe in a minor role, having faked his death as a means of becoming a more effective spy. Marlowe is the main character in A Tip for the Hangman (2021) by Allison Epstein. He investigates the Babington Plot while struggling as a student at Cambridge. Theater, film and television In the drama-series Will Shakespeare (1978) Marlowe is portrayed by Ian McShane. Leo Rost's Marlowe (1981) is an American rock musical that was staged on Broadway. Peter Whelan's play The School of Night (1992), about Marlowe's links to the freethinking The School of Night and the young Shakespeare, was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. Rupert Everett portrays Marlowe in the film Shakespeare in Love (1998). In the