66 A warrant was issued for Marlowe’s arrest on 18 May 1593, for which no reason was given, although it was thought to be connected to allegations of blasphemy — a manuscript believed to have been written by Marlowe was said to contain ‘vile heretical conceipts’.
67 There is no agreement among critics when Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus was written and performed, although it exists in two versions. It was an Elizabethan tragedy based on German stories about the title character Faust that was first performed some time between 1588 and Marlowe’s death in 1593.
68 Lindsey Hughes, Peter the Great: A Biography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002),
pp. 90–92.
69 See, for example, Evgenii V. Anisimov, The Reforms of Peter the Great: progress through coercion in Russia, trans. with an Intro
