| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 421 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. |
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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. |
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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. |
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Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Spies. |
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1599 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Honan, Park. Christopher Marlowe. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0198186959 9780198186953 (DLC) 2005019761 (OCoLC)60931407 |
| ISBN |
9781429488426 (electronic book) |
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1429488425 (electronic book) |
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9780198186953 (alkaline paper) |
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0198186959 (alkaline paper) |
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9780191518607 (electronic book) |
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0191518603 (electronic book) |
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1280766387 |
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9781280766381 |
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0198186959 (Cloth) |
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