vintage RW stupidity: Christopher Marlowe a Communist?

[Enrique]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee

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In 1938, Hallie Flanagan, the head of the Federal Theatre Project, was subpoenaed to appear before the committee to answer the charge that the project was overrun with communists. Flanagan was called to testify for only a part of one day, while a clerk from the project was called in for two entire days. It was during this investigation that one of the committee members, Joe Starnes, famously asked Flanagan whether the Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe was a member of the Communist Party, and mused that "Mr. Euripides" preached class warfare.<12>

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[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Yeah, but back then they spelled it Ye Olde Communiste Partye

[LeftinOH]

2. Backe in thofe dayf, fuch perfonf were called "Communiftf",

[flakey_foont]

3. as in

Come Live with me
and be my Comrade??

that Christopher Marlowe?

[DavidDvorkin]

4. "Why, this is Hell, nor are you out of it."

Hmm.