| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 421 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
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| SUBJECT |
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 fast |
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Marlowe, Christopher. swd |
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Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography
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Espionage, British -- History -- 16th century
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Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Dramatists, English -- Early modern -- Biography
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Espionage, British
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Spies
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429488426 |
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1429488425 |
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9780198186953 |
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0198186959 |
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9780191518607 |
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0191518603 |
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1280766387 |
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9781280766381 |
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9786610766383 |
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661076638X |
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