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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeareâ€™s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe

By (author) Stephen Greenblatt

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Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. From one of the greatest writers on the Elizabethan era, Dark Renaissance is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe â€“ Shakespeareâ€™s inspiration and rival, who helped to bring England out of the cultural darkness and into the light. â€™A rigorous and sparkling exploration of what makes an artist â€¦. Essential and addictive readingâ€™ MAGGIE O'FARRELL In brutally repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world comes an ambitious cobblerâ€™s son from Canterbury with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry â€“ which to him is a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous scepticism. What Christopher Marlowe finds on the other side of that door, and what he does with it, brings about a spectacular explosion of English literature, language, and culture, enabling the success of many others, including his contemporary and collaborator William Shakespeare. By the time of his murder in a Deptford tavern in 1593, the 29-year-old Marlowe will be the most celebrated dramatist of his time. Stephen Greenblatt grippingly reconstructs the involvement with the queenâ€™s spy service that shaped Marloweâ€™s brief, troubling life and helped fashion his masterpieces about power and its costs. And he explores how the people Marlowe knew, and the transformations they wrought, gave birth to the economic, scientific, and cultural power of the modern world â€“ involving Faustian bargains with which we reckon still. Dark Renaissance is a scintillating combination of narrative flair, historical insight and literary criticism about a writer whose blazing talent catapulted England from cultural backwater to crucible of creativity.

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