The World of Christopher Marlowe - Couverture souple

Riggs, Professor David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571221602 ISBN 13 : 9780571221608

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2005

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Riggs is Mark Pigott OBE, Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. His previous books include Ben Jonson: A Life. He lives in California with his wife, a native of Sussex.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571221602
• ISBN 13: 9780571221608
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
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