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Next, Eliot names three sources on which Shakespeare is believed to have based his play: Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, The Ur-Hamlet, and a version of the play performed in Germany during Shakespeare's lifetime.
It fictionalizes the relationships between Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd and Sir Walter Raleigh as well as the events leading up to Marlowe's death.