Christopher Marlowe and the Cambridge University Connection

马洛的两面派，一个是“善良的基特”，一个是野心勃勃的叛徒，似乎源于大多数贫穷的学者不得不依赖于大学社区的亲密/亲密。正是他们与一位有益的赞助人的关系以及彼此之间错综复杂的友谊使他们能够度过艰难的生活。毫无疑问，这在这个社区的成员之间形成了一个紧密的友谊和团结的网络，这是一个典型的例子，我们可以在副校长法庭的法案书中看到马洛与威廉·奥斯汀的关系。(奥斯汀是由坎特伯雷东桥医院的收入维持的学者。他来自坎特伯雷，可能在坎特伯雷省的一所免费学校接受过教育。虽然他在1578年的复活节拿到了领取养老金的资格，但他在1580年就获得了奖学金。因此，他比马洛大两三岁。)与此同时，这种亲密关系很容易引起对威胁这个小社会团结的分裂派系的敌意。考虑到坎特伯雷以经济为导向的学者的职业选择，与诺福克的热心或嫉妒的学者出于对他们伟大恩人的崇敬而团结在一起的背景下，我们不难想象导致诽谤马洛的谣言流传的摩擦的性质。对马洛的诽谤很可能来自科珀斯克里斯蒂学院敌对的同时代人制造的谣言。

Marlowe's two-facedness, a "kind Kit" and an ambitious traitor, seems to arise from the fact that most poor scholars had to depend on the closeness/closedness of the collegiate community. It was their relationship with a beneficial patron and their intricate friendships with each other which enabled them to survive their difficult lives. It is no wonder that this nourished a tight-knit network of friendship and solidarity among the members of this community, a typical case of which we can observed in Marlowe's relationship with William Austen in the Act Books of the vice-chancellor's Court. (Austen was a scholar maintained by the revenue of Eastbridge Hospital in Canterbury. He came from Canterbury and might have obtained an education at one of the free schools in the Province of Canterbury. Although his matriculation as pensioner was during Easter of 1578,he received his scholarship in 1580. He was, therefore, 2 or 3 years senior to Marlowe.) At the same time, it is possible that this closeness/closedness would easily arouse hostility against a breakaway faction which threatened the unity of this small society. Considering the career choice of the economically oriented scholars from Canterbury against a backdrop of zealous or jealous scholars from Norfolk united in reverence fro their great benefactors, it is not difficult to imagine the nature of the friction which led to the circulation of the defamatory rumor about Marlowe. It is likely that the slanderous representation of Marlowe was derived from a rumor generated by hostile contemporaries at Corpus Christi College.