it was tribute to the character of william shakespeare that , after he had pushed past them , rushed in and knelt by the bed and hugged the dead bodies of his wife and child in tears , he went back to the theatre - knowing he had to be there at the end to receive the plaudits of the queen and thus maintain the subterfuge of the great marlowe plot - and took his bows , weighed down by the death of his new son and of his wife .