One of his early works, "The Massacre at Paris" was inspired by the influx of Huguenot refuges to his hometown, Canterbury. While at college in Cambridge, he was almost certainly recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to serve as a British spy, and possibly worked to forestall 
One of his early works, "The Massacre at Paris" was inspired by the influx of Huguenot refuges to his hometown, Canterbury. While at college in Cambridge, he was almost certainly recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to serve as a British spy, and possibly worked to forestall the assassination of Queen Elizabeth by uncovering the Babington Plot. His alleged atheism and connections to an intellectual society headed by Sir Walter Raleigh tainted his literary reputation , though he was popular in London as member of the Admiral's Men company. An exact contemporary of Shakespeare, he has been posited as an alternative author for the Shakespearian sonnets. For ten points, identify this Elizabethan dramatist, author of Dido Queen of Carthage, the Jew of Malta, and Tamburlaine the Great.
One of his early works, "The Massacre at Paris" was inspired by the influx of Huguenot refuges to his hometown, Canterbury.