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...professors who resigned were members of Haverford's English department. Dr. Leslie Hotson, Canada-born, is renowned as a "literary detective." Through old court records he tracked down the name of the murderer* of Playwright Christopher Marlowe, and he ferreted out long-lost letters that Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to his wife after he ran away with Mary Godwin...
...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE-Leslie Hotson-Oxford University Press ($3). Leslie Hotson is the Sherlock Holmes of Elizabethan scholars who first uncovered the mystery of Marlowe's death (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933). In this book he reviews the career, family background and political connections of Thomas Russell, the overseer of Shakespeare's will, identifies the bard tenuously with groups of Catholic conspirators, but fails to catch him in any political activity. Result: a series of good thumbnail biographies of forgotten Elizabethans, throwing more light upon the turbulent times than on the tranquil poet...
Although it includes an exhaustive account of Marlowe's college years, largely based on the Cambridge "Buttery Book" that lists Marlowe's modest spendings for bread and beer, Christopher Marlowe reaches its high point in its account of the poet's death. Until Dr. John Leslie Hotson published the coroner's inquest on Marlowe twelve years ago, uncovering a 330-year-old mystery, biographers had been forced to accept the legend that had him killed in a brawl over an anonymous "lewd wench" in an unnamed London tavern. Early Puritan writers considered Marlowe's terrible...
...might almost say that it was not until our own day that stage histories like that of Dr. Noyes began to appear. The pioneers in this branch of study in America have been Professor Hazelton Spencer of Johns Hopkins, Professor A. C. Sprague of Harvard and Professor Leslie Hotson of Haverford College. With this book Dr. Noyes joins that company of specialists and adds the account of Ben Jonson's fate during the Restoration and the XVIIIth century to the tales already told of how Shakespeare was 'improved' or adapted to the tastes and prejudices of our ancestors...
...most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson who solved the mystery of Christopher Marlowe's death; Snake...