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The World of Christopher Marlowe.(Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy)(Brief article)(Book review)
From: Biography
Date: 20060322
Author:Greenblatt, Stephen
Marlowe, Christopher
The World of Christopher Marlowe. David Riggs. New York: Henry Holt, 2005. 411 pp. $17.00.
Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy. Park Honan. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006. 421 pp. $32.50.
"Davis Rigg's The World of Christopher Marlowe and Park Honan's Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy both concern themselves centrally with Marlowe's secret life as a spy. Neither has very much new documentary evidence to add to the tangled web of fact and speculation that Charles Nicholl expertly wove in The Reckoning. For sheer narrative pleasure, Nicholl's book remains ...
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