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The World of Christopher Marlowe (Paperback, Main)
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The World of Christopher Marlowe (Paperback, Main)
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List price R364
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David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life,
from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's
abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school.
Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where he entered its
world of 18-hour working days, religious intrigue and twilight
homosexuality, tolerated but unspoken. The gifted student was not
immune to the passions and fears of the wider society, and Riggs
describes the mood of England in those years when Elizabeth's crown
was anything but secure, and Spain and the Papacy were determined
to overthrow her regime. Looming above everything is the
Elizabethan state and its spy rings, with which Marlowe was already
involved by the time he left Cambridge. His undercover missions
brought him into contact with Catholic conspirators who were
plotting to kill the Queen; yet as a playwright and thinker he was
attracted to the most unorthodox and threatening idea of all -
atheism. Marlowe's brief life was enigmatic, contradictory and
glorious - and this magisterial work of reconstruction and
scholarship illuminates it with immense richness.
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