Christopher Marlowe [[electronic resource] ] : poet & spy / / Park Honan
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Honan Park
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Christopher Marlowe [[electronic resource] ] : poet & spy / / Park Honan
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822/.3 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Dramatists, English - Early modern, 1500-1700 |
| Espionage, British - History - 16th century | |
| Spies - Great Britain | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN: | 1-280-76638-7 |
| 0-19-151860-3 | |
| 1-4294-8842-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778127403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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