"Jack's edition is lovingly and comprehensively written and takes the reader, scholar or layman, deep into Elizabethan and Jacobean life. It easily . . . is the best book available on the Marlowe/Shakespeare problem, bar none."
—John Baker, prominent Marlovian and Shakespearean researcher. 


"Before this book, nobody has so solidly situated Marlowe in his artistic and political milieu. And no one else so gently leads one to the conclusion that Marlowe was the hidden hand behind Shakespeare. To call his argument persuasive is too weak. The reader just arrives at a new place in understanding as if the journey was inevitable."

—Mike Rubbo, prize-winning film director of Much Ado About Something.

“Your new book on Marlowe and Shakespeare is enormously impressive as a detective work in literature. Your analysis of Hamlet is remarkable. . . . breathtakingly imaginative.”
—Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People’s History of the 
  United States

“Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a pleasure to read—lucid, compelling, based on a thorough-going examination of an enormous amount of supportive critical commentary."
—Dewey Ganzel, Shakespearean scholar and author of Fortune
  and Men’s Eyes
 

“This is without doubt the book that I had hoped someone would write. . . . It eagerly grasps new research, new facts, and new ideas and gives us a fresh, highly readable, and above all interesting account of what, I am sure, will turn out to be, if not the whole truth, at least something very near to it.”
—Peter Farey, British critic and researcher


“Your subject strikes me as exhaustively researched, intriguing, insightful, and timely. You approach the issues in an informed but very appealing way, drawing what strike me as very plausible parallels between the literature and the lives involved in a way that invites further investigation.”
—George Ferger, Shakespeare instructor and critic, Williamstown, Mass.


“This edition of Hamlet makes a strong case for the staging of Christopher Marlowe’s death and his reemergence as an author of powerful works in partnership with Shakespeare. Alex Jack’s historical and literary analyses offer compelling support for his views on the authorship question, making this a valuable resource for Marlowe and Shakespeare enthusiasts and scholars alike.”

—Janet Benton, director of Benton Editorial, Philadelphia, and former editor, University of Massachusetts Press.