Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and
detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new
material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home
life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading,
teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new
date for the famous 'putative portrait' of Marlowe at Cambridge.
The biography uses for the first time the Latin writings of his
friend Thomas Watson to illuminate Marlowe's life in London and his
career as a spy (that is, as a courier and agent for the
Elizabethan Privy Council). There are new accounts of him on the
continent, particularly at Flushing or Vlissingen, where he was
arrested. The book also more fully explains Marlowe's relations
with his chief patron, Thomas Walsingham, than ever before. This is
also the first biography to explore in detail Marlowe's relations
with fellow playwrights such as Kyd and Shakespeare, and to show
how Marlowe's relations with Shakespeare evolved from 1590 to 1593.
With closer views of him in relation to the Elizabethan stage than
have appeared in any biography, the book examines in detail his
aims, mind, and techniques as exhibited in all of his plays, from
Dido, the Tamburlaine dramas, and Doctor Faustus through to The Jew
of Malta and Edward II. It offers new treatments of his evolving
versions of 'The Passionate Shepherd', and displays circumstances,
influences, and the bearings of Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis' in
relation to Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander'. Throughout, there is a
strong emphasis on Marlowe's friendships and so-called
'homosexuality'. Fresh information is brought to bear on his
seductive use of blasphemy, his street fights, his methods of
preparing himself for writing, and his atheism and religious
interests. The book also explores his attraction to scientists and
mathematicians such as Thomas Harriot and others in the
Ralegh-Northumberland set of thinkers and experimenters. Finally,
there is new data on spies and business agents such as Robert
Poley, Nicholas Skeres, and Ingram Frizer, and a more exact account
of the circumstances that led up to Marlowe's murder.
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