02610nam 2200613 a 450 991077812740332120230617010301.01-280-76638-70-19-151860-31-4294-8842-5(CKB)1000000000476614(EBL)422617(OCoLC)476258375(SSID)ssj0000121968(PQKBManifestationID)11139451(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121968(PQKBWorkID)10110573(PQKB)11399812(MiAaPQ)EBC422617(Au-PeEL)EBL422617(CaPaEBR)ebr10177912(CaONFJC)MIL76638(EXLCZ)99100000000047661420050711d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChristopher Marlowe[electronic resource] poet & spy /Park HonanOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (438 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-923269-5 0-19-818695-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 BaDramatists, EnglishEarly modern, 1500-1700BiographyEspionage, BritishHistory16th centurySpiesGreat BritainBiographyDramatists, EnglishEspionage, BritishHistorySpies822/.3BHonan Park165927MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778127403321Christopher Marlowe1110224UNINA