Dark Renaissance - Stephen Greenblatt

A vibrant, modern biography of the writer, and suspected spy, Christopher Marlowe – Shakespeare’s bolder, raunchier and more radical brother in arms, pen and ink.LONDON, LATE 16TH CENTURY. Townhouses quickly give way to overcrowded tenements and hovels; cobblestone lanes are filled with excrement and offal; bodies hang from gallows and severed heads are impaled on spikes for all to see. It’s a place of repression, suspicion, censorship, and violence – for London to become the scene of astonishing... Zobrazit více