A fine madness : a novel inspired by the life and death of Christopher Marlowe /
Judd, Alan, 1946-
A fine madness : a novel inspired by the life and death of Christopher Marlowe / Alan Judd. - London : Simon & Schuster, 2021. - ix, 240 pages ; 23 cm.
Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's exact contemporary and sometime collaborator, was the leading playwright of his day whose dramatic verse and themes - political power, the power of love and the route to damnation - transformed English theatre. His Doctor Faustus was the first great dramatic rendering of the Faust legend. Probably an atheist, probably a spy and possibly gay, he lived and wrote as a literary Caravaggio until killed in a knife-fight he had himself provoked, aged 29. Alan Judd's perfectly poised and breathtakingly suspenseful novel subtly delineates the strands of that life, physical and spiritual, showing how they coalesce in a death that remains mysterious and controversial.
9781471180217 (hbk.) : 14.99 1471180212 (hbk.) : 14.99
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 --Fiction.
Phelippes, Thomas, 1556-1625 --Fiction.
Historical.
Historical.
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952---Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PR6060.U32
A fine madness : a novel inspired by the life and death of Christopher Marlowe / Alan Judd. - London : Simon & Schuster, 2021. - ix, 240 pages ; 23 cm.
Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's exact contemporary and sometime collaborator, was the leading playwright of his day whose dramatic verse and themes - political power, the power of love and the route to damnation - transformed English theatre. His Doctor Faustus was the first great dramatic rendering of the Faust legend. Probably an atheist, probably a spy and possibly gay, he lived and wrote as a literary Caravaggio until killed in a knife-fight he had himself provoked, aged 29. Alan Judd's perfectly poised and breathtakingly suspenseful novel subtly delineates the strands of that life, physical and spiritual, showing how they coalesce in a death that remains mysterious and controversial.
9781471180217 (hbk.) : 14.99 1471180212 (hbk.) : 14.99
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 --Fiction.
Phelippes, Thomas, 1556-1625 --Fiction.
Historical.
Historical.
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952---Fiction.
Historical fiction.
PR6060.U32