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The world of Christopher Marlowe / David Riggs.
LIBRA - Furness Storage PR2673 .R54 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riggs, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
- Marlowe, Christopher.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
- Dramatists, English.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 411 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt, 2005.
- Summary:
- In this absorbing biography of Marlowe and his times, the author presents Marlowe as the language's first poetic dramatist whose desires proved his undoing. Exhaustive research digs deeply into the mystery of how and why Marlowe was killed.
- Notes:
- "A John Macrae book."
- Originally published: London : Faber, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-397) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0805077553
- OCLC:
- 56011059
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