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Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20060622
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Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. Park Honan. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xv + 421 pages. ISBN 0-19-818695-9. As Prof. Honan writes, Marlowe's life 'is the most spectacular of any English dramatist'. Because it is so it is therefore difficult to disentangle fact from fiction: a man who was, or who was said to be, a government spy, a blasphemer, a pub brawler and a homosexual who died aet. 29. Prof. Honan uses the expertise he gained whilst writing his biography of Shakespeare to good effect to separate fact from fiction and to put events into their historic ...

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