Legal scholars say the term reflects what ?
In his " Shakespeare and Co. " , referring to the documentation concerning Marlowe 's death , Stanley Wells reflects the view of virtually all scholars that Marlowe did die then when he wrote : " The unimpugnable documentary evidence deriving from legal documents ... makes this one of the best recorded episodes in English literary history " and " Even before these papers turned up there was ample evidence that Marlowe died a violent death in Deptford in 1593 . "