Elizabethan drama based on the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Catholics in Paris. According to Wikipedia: "Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his magnificent blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his own mysterious and untimely death."