The Calvin Hoffman Prize is a prize for writing a distinguished essay or publication about Christopher Marlowe and his relationship to William Shakespeare. All contestants must focus their efforts on whether or not Marlowe was partially or wholly responsible for the works attributed to Shakespeare.

Calvin Hoffman was convinced that Christopher Marlowe wrote the works attributed to William Shakespeare. The principal prize will be awarded to the person who "has in the opinion of the King's School, Canterbury furnished irrefutable and incontrovertible proof and evidence required to satisfy the world of Shakespearean scholarship that all the plays and poems now commonly attributed to William Shakespeare were in fact written by Christopher Marlowe." Nobody so far has come anywhere close to obtaining the Hoffman Prize.

More Info: www.marlowe-society.org