
The m******e at Paris: With the Death of the Duke of Guise
(1593)
This Elizabethan drama portrays the events of the Saint Bartholomew's Day m******e of 1572. English Protestants invoked this day as the blackest example of Catholic treachery. It features the silent "English Agent", whom subsequent tradition has identified with Marlowe himself and his connections to the secret service. The m******e at Paris is considered Marlowe's most dangerous play, as agitators in London seized on its theme to advocate the murders of refugees from the low countries and, indeed, it warns Elizabeth I of this possibility in its last scene.

