Dark Renaissance - Stephen Greenblatt

Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.
This is the extraordinary story of Christopher Marlowe – Shakespeare’s greatest inspiration and rival.
In brutally repressive Elizabethan London, artists are frightened; foreigners are suspect; crowds revel in animal fights and public executions. Into this crude world comes an ambitious boy whose uncanny ear for poetry and radical streak would change England forever.
Enter Christopher Marlowe. A cobbler’s son from Canterbury, by the time of his murder in 1593 Marlowe is the most celebrated playwright of his time, setting the stage for an explosion of artistic creativity. Written by one of our greatest writers on the Elizabethan era, Dark Renaissance tells Marlowe’s story: a thrilling tale of daring, scandal and tragedy which reveals Marlowe to be a blazing talent who helped break England out of the cultural darkness and into the light.
Review
What a magnificently thrilling read ... Dark Renaissance is a dazzling account of a dazzling life -- Stephen FryA rigorous and sparkling exploration of what makes an artist, Dark Renaissance conjures the Elizabethan age as a place of instability, succession anxiety, and burgeoning theatrical genius. Essential and addictive reading: Greenblatt's Kit Marlowe leaps from the page with all the élan and immediacy of his plays -- Maggie O'FarrellThis brilliant and riveting book brings Christopher Marlowe out of the shadows, capturing the remarkable and sudde
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