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UNINA9910451868403321 |
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Autore |
Honan Park |
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Titolo |
Christopher Marlowe [[electronic resource] ] : poet & spy / / Park Honan |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-76638-7 |
0-19-151860-3 |
1-4294-8842-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (438 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dramatists, English - Early modern, 1500-1700 |
Espionage, British - History - 16th century |
Spies - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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