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Shakespeare: The Biography.(Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy)(Book Review)

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From: History Today
Date: 20060201
Author:De Lisle, Leanda

Shakespeare The Biography Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus 560pp 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 1856197263

Christopher Marlowe Poet and Spy Park Honan Oxford University Press 448pp 125 [pounds sterling] ISBN:0 19 818695 9

'GOOD FRIEND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEAR, To dig the dust enclosed here', begins the epitaph on Shakespeare's tomb, 'Blest be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones.' As Shakespeare's biographers have found, he is equally reluctant to give up to public scrutiny the life that once animated that dead body.

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