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Some critics believe that Marlowe sought to disseminate these views in his work and that he identified with his rebellious and iconoclastic protagonists. {{fact}} However, plays had to be approved by the [[Master of the Revels]] before they could be performed, and the [[censorship]] of publications was under the control of the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]]. Presumably these authorities did not consider any of Marlowe's works to be unacceptable (apart from the ''Amores'').
 
==="Sodomy"===
Marlowe is often described today as [[homosexuality|homosexual]], although the evidence for this is inconclusive.
 
Some believe that the question of whether an Elizabethan was 'gay' or 'homosexual' in a modern sense is [[anachronistic]]; for the Elizabethans, what is often today termed homosexual or bisexual was more likely to be recognised as simply a sexual act, rather than an exclusive sexual orientation and identity (see [[Homosexuality#History|History of homosexuality]]).
 
====Documentary evidence====