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Christopher Marlowe : poet & spy / Park Honan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199232697 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Christopher Marlowe : poet and spy
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.3 HON 22
Contents:
[Pt.] 1. A Canterbury youth. Birth ; Petty school and the parish ; The King's School -- [pt.] 2. Scholar and spy. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ; Into espionage -- [pt.] 3. With Shakespeare, Kyd, and the Ralegh Circle. The Tamburlaine phenomenon ; Doctor Faustus ; A spy abroad -- [pt.] 4. Sexuality and reckonings. The keen pleasures of sex ; A little matter of murder.
Summary: One of the great playwrights of his age, second only to Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe 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 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. In addition, there is a more exact account of the circumstances that led to his murder, and a fresh description of his evolving relationship with Shakespeare. 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.
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Includes appendices.

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[Pt.] 1. A Canterbury youth. Birth ; Petty school and the parish ; The King's School -- [pt.] 2. Scholar and spy. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ; Into espionage -- [pt.] 3. With Shakespeare, Kyd, and the Ralegh Circle. The Tamburlaine phenomenon ; Doctor Faustus ; A spy abroad -- [pt.] 4. Sexuality and reckonings. The keen pleasures of sex ; A little matter of murder.

One of the great playwrights of his age, second only to Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe 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 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. In addition, there is a more exact account of the circumstances that led to his murder, and a fresh description of his evolving relationship with Shakespeare.
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.

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