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Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy
Contributor(s): Honan, Park (Author)
ISBN: 0198186959     ISBN-13: 9780198186953
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $74.10  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2006
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Annotation: Park Honan offers the most thoroughly researched biography of Christopher Marlowe--poet and spy--to appear in over 50 years. The book features new information on Marlowe's years at Corpus Christi College, his shocking blasphemy and street fights, and an exact account of the circumstances that led to his murder.
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2005019761
Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.38" W x 9.46" (1.69 lbs) 438 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Christopher Marlowe's life was the most spectacular of any English dramatist. One of the great playwrights of his age, second only to Shakespeare, he was also a secret agent as well as the central figure in a murder mystery. Now, Park Honan offers the most thoroughly researched and detailed
biography of Marlowe to appear in over fifty years.
Honan, the acclaimed biographer of Shakespeare, takes us from Marlowe's childhood in Canterbury to his mysterious death in Deptford, shedding much light on this shadowy individual. The book features new information on Marlowe's six-and-a-half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his
shocking blasphemy and his street fights, his methods of preparing himself for writing, and his alleged atheism. The book includes new facts about Marlowe's adventures on the continent, where he was caught with a counterfeit coin, a hanging offense, but talked his way out of the noose and was
returned to England in irons. Honan describes his attraction to scientists such as Thomas Harriot and other hard-headed realists bent on innovation and free thought. In addition, there are new details on spies and business agents that Marlowe knew, a more exact account of the circumstances that led
to his murder, and a fresh description of his evolving relationship with Shakespeare.
The author of Tamberlaine the Great and Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe changed the nature of the English stage. Researched in archives in England, Europe, and the United States, this superb biography paints an unforgettable portrait of one of the most remarkable figures in English
literature.