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Christopher Marlowe : poet & spy / Park Honan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Honan, Park.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dramatists, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
- Dramatists, English.
- Espionage, British--History--16th century.
- Espionage, British.
- Spies--Great Britain--Biography.
- Spies.
- Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
- Marlowe, Christopher.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (438 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Park Honan's exciting new biography highlights Christopher Marlowe's dangerous career as a part-time spy, as well as his evolving relations, especially with Shakespeare. We see how his creative imagination helped to save him even among thugs, and brought him a brief, dazzling success. His street fights, friendships, so-called homosexuality, talk, and personal habits are in close focus. The book includes an ongoing murder-mystery, and sheds new light on Marlowe's killer and the fight. at Deptford. - ;Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Ba
- Contents:
- Birth
- Petty school and the parish
- The King's School
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Into espionage
- The Tamburlaine phenomenon
- Doctor Faustus
- A spy abroad
- The keen pleasures of sex
- A little matter of murder.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-76638-7
- 0-19-151860-3
- 1-4294-8842-5
- OCLC:
- 476258375
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