What historical event is dramatized in Marlowe's 'The Massacre at Paris'?
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Correct answer: The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
The play depicts the 1572 slaughter of French Protestants (Huguenots). It is a topical and violently anti-Catholic work that was highly popular with the Protestant audiences of Elizabethan London.
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