Cheney, Patrick, The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

This book contains essays by sixteen different scholars who comment on Marlowe's life and his texts, as well as his influence on later writers.

Clay, Christopher, Rural Society: Landowners, Peasants, and Labourers, 1500—1750, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

This book details the social and economic history of rural England during the period from 1500 to 1750. There is information about wages and profits associated with estate management, as well as details about the lives and status of laborers.

Cole, Douglas, Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy, Praeger, 1995.

Cole examines the major literary traditions of Marlowe's era and how he transformed them into themes fitting his own purpose.

Kuriyama, Constance Brown, Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life, Cornell University Press, 2002.

This biography of Marlowe examines Marlowe's life by placing him in a cultural context. Rather than just focus on...