Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Greenblatt, Stephen
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Greenblatt, Stephen

Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists...
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Greenblatt, Stephen

Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

$49.27
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Greenblatt, Stephen

Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

$49.27
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world of government censorship and religious authoritarianism comes an ambitious cobbler's son from Canterbury with a daring desire to be known--and an uncanny ear for Latin poetry. A torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, like Christopher Marlowe, a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous skepticism.

What Marlowe seizes in his rare opportunity for a classical education, and what he does with it, brings about a spectacular explosion of English literature, language, and culture. His astonishing literary success will, in turn, nourish the talent of a collaborator and rival, William Shakespeare.

Dark Renaissance illuminates both Marlowe's times and the origins and significance of his work--from his erotic translations of Ovid to his portrayal of unfettered ambition in a triumphant Tamburlaine to Doctor Faustus, his unforgettable masterpiece about making a pact with the devil in exchange for knowledge. Introducing us to Marlowe's transgressive genius in the form of a thrilling page-turner, Stephen Greenblatt brings a penetrating understanding of the literary work to reveal the inner world of the author, bringing to life a homosexual atheist who was tormented by his own compromises, who refused to toe the party line, and who was murdered just when he had found love. Meanwhile, he explores how the people Marlowe knew, and the transformations they wrought, gave birth to the economic, scientific, and cultural power of the modern world including Faustian bargains with which we reckon still.



Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780393882278


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 12
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Booklist 08/01/2025
BookPage 09/01/2025

About the Author
Greenblatt, Stephen: - Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He has written extensively on English Renaissance literature and acts as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Swerve, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Will in the World, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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