A fine madness : a novel inspired by the life and death of Christopher Marlowe /
by Judd, Alan.
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BookPublisher: London : Simon & Schuster, 2021Description: ix, 240 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781471180217 (hbk.) :; 1471180212 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Fiction | Phelippes, Thomas, 1556-1625 -- Fiction | Historical | Historical | Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952- -- Fiction | Historical fictionSummary: 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.
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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.
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