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The World of Christopher Marlowe

Author: David Riggs

The World of Christopher Marlowe

The World of Christopher Marlowe

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The definitive biography: a masterly account of Marlowe's work and life and the world in which he lived

Shakespeare's contemporary, Christopher Marlowe revolutionized...

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432
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01/07/2014

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The definitive biography: a masterly account of Marlowe's work and life and the world in which he lived

Shakespeare's contemporary, Christopher Marlowe revolutionized English drama and poetry, transforming the Elizabethan stage into a place of astonishing creativity. The outline of Marlowe's life, work, and violent death are known, but few of the details that explain why his writing and ideas made him such a provocateur in the Elizabethan era have been available until now. In this absorbing consideration of Marlowe and his times, David Riggs presents Marlowe as the language's first poetic dramatist whose desires proved his undoing.

In an age of tremendous cultural change in Europe when Cervantes wrote the first novel and Copernicus demonstrated a world subservient to other nonreligious forces, Catholics and Protestants battled for control of England and Elizabeth's crown was anything but secure. Into this whirlwind of change stepped Marlowe espousing sexual freedom and atheism. His beliefs proved too dangerous to those in power and he was condemned as a spy and later murdered. In The World of Christopher Marlowe, Riggs's exhaustive research digs deeply into the mystery of how and why Marlowe was killed.

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Henry Holt and Co.

ISBN

9781466862340

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“Full-blooded biography . . . We are drawn deep into the sordid realm in which Marlowe fashioned his life and met his violent death.” —Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, author of Hamlet in Purgatory

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The World of Christopher Marlowe

The World of Christopher Marlowe

$11.99

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