film Anonymous (2011) he is played by Trystan Gravelle. John Hurt plays Marlowe, who still lives as a vampire in the 21st century, in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or in 2013. Marlowe is a character played by Jim Howick in the 2015 comedy Bill. Marlowe (played by Jamie Campbell-Bower) is a main character in the 2017 TNT series Will. Marlowe (played by Tim Downie) is a main character in Ben Elton's Shakespeare-sitcom Upstart Crow (2016). In this series, Shakespeare writes Marlowe's plays for him, providing cover for Marlowe's spy-activities. Downie's Marlowe has similarities to Lord Flashheart from Elton's Blackadder. Tom Hughes played Marlowe on the 2020 season of the fantasy-series A Discovery of Witches, adapted from Deborah Harkness' novels. Radio Christopher Marlowe, a re-enactment of Marlowe's life and death starring Stan Geverts as Marlowe, was broadcast on the Municipal Broadcasting System on October 11, 1950. The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries, written by Ged Parsons and starring Dominic Jephcott as Marlowe, was a four-episode BBC Radio 4 series, first broadcast in 2007. Michael Butt's radio play Unauthorized History: The Killing was first broadcast as part of the Afternoon Drama series on BBC Radio 4 on 17 August 2010. A three-part dramatization of Charles Nicholl's book The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, adapted by Mike Walker and directed by Sasha Yevtushenko with the author as presenter and Chris Lew Kum Hoi as Marlowe, was broadcast in May 2022 on BBC Radio 4. References Fiction Cultural depictions of writers Cultural depictions of poets Cultural depictions of dramatists and playwrights Cultural depictions of British men