Four hundred years after the publication of Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies—the most influential volume in Western literature—this book offers unprecedented evidence of the so-called Marlowe Theory. It postulates that the man from Stratford was merely a circumstantial front man for a larger cultural operation: the propagation of the work of Christopher Marlowe, the favorite poet-spy of the anti-Catholic Elizabethan elite and co-founder of the School of Night, disgraced for being an atheist, blasphemer, and homosexual, thus laying the foundations for a secular "new religion" alternative to Christianity. Nearly twenty texts never before translated into Spanish, along with a meticulous comparative reading of the Marlowe-Shakespeare continuum, comprise this monumental essay that unites the literary, historical, and philosophical in a kaleidoscope of understanding that era and those who gave it life, from Queen Elizabeth I to Giordano Bruno. The essay on Hamlet, meanwhile, offers perspectives for reinterpreting Shakespeare's work in a completely new way.