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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Title
Christopher Marlowe.
International Standard Book Number
9780198186953
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Marlowe, Christopher,1564-1593.
Marlowe, Christopher,1564-1593.
Marlowe, Christopher,1564-1593.
Marlowe, Christopher.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Dramatists, English-- Early modern, 1500-1700, Biography.