Before you leave...
Take 20% off your first order
20% off
Enter the code below at checkout to get 20% off your first order
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198186953)
Vendor:
Park Honan
Product type:
Books
- $78.00
$78.00- $78.00
- Unit price
- per
Subtotal:
$78.00
Description
xChristopher Marlowe's life was the most spectacular of any English dramatist. One of the great playwrights of his age, second only to Shakespeare, he was also a secret agent as well as the central figure in a murder mystery. Now, Park Honan offers the most thoroughly researched and detailed biography of Marlowe to appear in over fifty years.
Honan, the acclaimed biographer of Shakespeare, takes us from Marlowe's childhood in Canterbury to his mysterious death in Deptford, shedding much light on this shadowy individual. The book features new information on Marlowe's six-and-a-half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his shocking blasphemy and his street fights, his methods of preparing himself for writing, and his alleged atheism. The book includes new facts about Marlowe's adventures on the continent, where he was caught with a counterfeit coin, a hanging offense, but talked his way out of the noose and was returned to England in irons. Honan describes his attraction to scientists such as Thomas Harriot and other hard-headed realists bent on innovation and free thought. In addition, there are new details on spies and business agents that Marlowe knew, a more exact account of the circumstances that led to his murder, and a fresh description of his evolving relationship with Shakespeare.
The author of Tamberlaine the Great and Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe changed the nature of the English stage. Researched in archives in England, Europe, and the United States, this superb biography paints an unforgettable portrait of one of the most remarkable figures in English literature.
Author: Park Honan
ISBN-10: 0198186959
ISBN-13: 9780198186953
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2006
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.38w x 1.31d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2005 pg. 14
Library Journal 02/15/2006 pg. 118
New York Review of Books 04/06/2006 pg. 42
New York Times 01/29/2006 pg. 20
Choice 11/01/2006 pg. 482
Honan, the acclaimed biographer of Shakespeare, takes us from Marlowe's childhood in Canterbury to his mysterious death in Deptford, shedding much light on this shadowy individual. The book features new information on Marlowe's six-and-a-half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his shocking blasphemy and his street fights, his methods of preparing himself for writing, and his alleged atheism. The book includes new facts about Marlowe's adventures on the continent, where he was caught with a counterfeit coin, a hanging offense, but talked his way out of the noose and was returned to England in irons. Honan describes his attraction to scientists such as Thomas Harriot and other hard-headed realists bent on innovation and free thought. In addition, there are new details on spies and business agents that Marlowe knew, a more exact account of the circumstances that led to his murder, and a fresh description of his evolving relationship with Shakespeare.
The author of Tamberlaine the Great and Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe changed the nature of the English stage. Researched in archives in England, Europe, and the United States, this superb biography paints an unforgettable portrait of one of the most remarkable figures in English literature.
Author: Park Honan
ISBN-10: 0198186959
ISBN-13: 9780198186953
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2006
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.38w x 1.31d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2005 pg. 14
Library Journal 02/15/2006 pg. 118
New York Review of Books 04/06/2006 pg. 42
New York Times 01/29/2006 pg. 20
Choice 11/01/2006 pg. 482
By Park Honan
xPark 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."
Recently Viewed Products
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.