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Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy
by Park Honan.
Oxford, 421 pp., £25, October 2005,0 19 818695 9 Show More
by Park Honan.
Oxford, 421 pp., £25, October 2005,
“... Compared to boring old Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, we think, had a short life and a gay one. When not writing his sonorous verse, he was spying, preaching atheism, fighting and getting murdered. Park Honan has done one of the two already, and now has done the other. Coming shortly after David Riggs’s solid, even too-solid The World of Christopher Marlowe, his Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy feels a little lightweight ... ”