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Poet, playwright, spy: Stephen Greenblatt conjures the brilliant life of Christopher Marlowe
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Stephen Greenblatt's new biography 'Dark Renaissance' examines the life of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, drawing parallels between Greenblatt's authorial approach and Marlowe's own literary themes of conjuring and ambition.
Poet, playwright, spy: Stephen Greenblatt conjures the brilliant life of Christopher Marlowe
Portrait believed to be Christopher Marlowe. Corpus Christi College, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In Dark Renaissance, his new biography of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), Stephen Greenblatt shares a trait with Marlowe and the Elizabethan playwright’s most famous character, Doctor Faustus: a desire to conjure.
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