Christopher Marlowe - Honan, Park (Emeritus Professor, School of English, University of Le
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A new and detailed account of Marlowe's life as a playwright and spy, this has new material on his home life, college years and his time on the continent. Also covers his use of blasphemy, his street fighting and his atheism. 2 maps.
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…mehr

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A new and detailed account of Marlowe's life as a playwright and spy, this has new material on his home life, college years and his time on the continent. Also covers his use of blasphemy, his street fighting and his atheism. 2 maps.
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.
Autorenporträt
Park Honan is Emeritus Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has written biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning. His most recent biography, Shakespeare: A Life, was hailed as "the best available biography" (Boston Globe) and "impressively researched" (New York Times), and The Baltimore Sun wrote "If you have never read a book about William Shakespeare, please read this one."