TY  - BOOK
AU  - Judd,Alan
TI  - A fine madness: a novel inspired by the life and death of Christopher Marlowe 
SN  - 9781471180217 (hbk.) :
AV  - PR6060.U32 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Marlowe, Christopher,
KW  - Phelippes, Thomas,
KW  - Historical
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Elizabeth II, 1952-
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcsh
N2  - 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
ER  -