Given the usual sleeping arrangements in inns of the period I'm inclined, I'm afraid, to think that Nicholas owes an awful lot to the anaphrodisiac effects of daily sessions with the Privy Council
Actually the text says Nicholas and Marlowe don't sleep together "the room where they ate and he slept". I wondered if that was put in deliberately! Marlow actually seems a lot kinder, and genuinely concerned for Nicholas's future at Deptford. Whether that's because he's sobered by what's going on - sees Nicholas more as a person - I'm not sure. But it's one of the reasons I think Marlowe never acted on any attraction to Nicholas, and maybe never intended to do so.
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Re: Am I the only one...
Date: 2015-05-06 11:26 am (UTC)Actually the text says Nicholas and Marlowe don't sleep together "the room where they ate and he slept". I wondered if that was put in deliberately! Marlow actually seems a lot kinder, and genuinely concerned for Nicholas's future at Deptford. Whether that's because he's sobered by what's going on - sees Nicholas more as a person - I'm not sure. But it's one of the reasons I think Marlowe never acted on any attraction to Nicholas, and maybe never intended to do so.