From today’s salacious perspective, Christopher Marlowe got everything right. Astoundingly, the shoemaker’s son made it to Cambridge and was soon a trailblazing playwright. He wrote boldly about ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to author Stephen Greenblatt about Dark Renaissance, which explores the life of Christopher Marlowe — the playwright he describes as "Shakespeare's greatest rival." The new ...
The new book "Dark Renaissance" is a true story of spies, counterfeiters, betrayal and murder. It's about the short life of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's greatest rival. And the ...