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A short life and a shady one

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From: The Spectator
Date: 20051029
Author:Carr, Raymond

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE by Park Honan OUP, £25, pp. 421, ISBN 019818959 . £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

Scholars face a formidable task when they set out to write the lives of the playwrights and poets of the Elizabethan age. They do not possess the personal revelations, say, of Byron's letters. They must piece together scraps of information contained in the lawsuits of an astonishingly litigious population; the comments of friends and enemies in the literary world. They must then fit all this together with the supposed personal references in their subject's works. Park Honan does ...

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