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"`Review from previous edition ...the rich, complex vision of Elizabethan life that ""Christopher Marlowe"" supplies can make his(Marlowe's) poetic gift for cutting to the passionate core of that life seem even more astonishing.' The New York Times Book Review `He (Honan) gives a sumptuously detailed picture of Marlowe's world..."" much-speculated (and previously erroneously reported) aspects of Marlowe's life without neglecting its more ordinary features... The care and depth of this biography honour Marlowe's complexities.' Publishers Weekly `This impressive volume must surely be recognised as the standard Marlowe biography' Roger Hards, The Marlowe Society Newsletter `Honan's great strength lies in his ability to capture the physical texture of Marlowe's world...Honan takes it apart with patience and sound judgement.. . .This is a rich and subtle study, combining convincing scholarship with a fluidity and pace that will appeal to the general reader.' J. P. D. Cooper, Times Literary Supplement `By heaven, this is an excellent, necessary and hugely welcome book. Though it responsibly synthesises previous scholarship, brings new perspectives and enlivens old, its greatest achievement is this: it presents a Marlowe that the sane can live with.' The Independent on Sunday `Honan's book is more than a fine piece if detective work revealing the seedy underbelly of Elizabethan England. It takes the reader on a round tour of Marlowe's work.' Raymond Carr, The Spectator `There's plenty of sparkle in this book.' Andrew Dickson `it is an elegantly written study which must now stand as the best overall biography of one of our most fascinating writers.' Stanley Wells, The Observer `a splendid book' Charles Nicholl, The Sunday Times `Honan has some fascinating new material.' Leanda de Lisle, History Today `Honan's addition to the fleet of books already written about Marlowe is constantly readable and adept at contextualising the history of Marlowe's times around this elusive figure who still fascinates today.' Dermot Bolger, Sunday Business Post `Honan frames the scant documentary evidence with great skill, carefully establishing the historical, religious and political context for each phase of Marlowe's career, and incorporating recent research that sheds more light on Marlowe's espionage career and murder.' William Grimes, New York Times `Honan's biography does more than retell this familiar story...Honan gives a fresh gloss to the old, still undecoded story of the reckoning.' Modern Language Review"

Park Honan, who has an appealingly idiosyncratic style, navigates skillfully through the latest research into the mysteries of Marlowe's story. Sunday Telegraph

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Park Honan is Emeritus Professor at the School of English, University of Leeds. He has written biographies of Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning. His most recent biography, Shakespeare: A Life, was hailed as ""the best available biography"" (Boston Globe) and ""impressively researched"" (New York Times), and The Baltimore Sun wrote ""If you have never read a book about William Shakespeare, please read this one.""

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