Jerry Brotton explores the dark side of Kit Marlowe's Dr Faustus.

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The Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is known as Shakespeare’s greatest rival. But in his new book Dark Renaissance, historian Stephen Greenblatt makes the case that Marlowe paved the way ...

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 ...

Hesse Phillips is the author of the debut novel, “Lightborne,” about the final days of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Raised in Pennsylvania and now living in Spain, they have an ...

The English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as his frenemy William Shakespeare. Yet unless you majored in English in college, it is quite possible you never ...