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St. Martin's Press
February 2013
On Sale: January 29, 2013
480 pages
ISBN: 1250017173
EAN: 9781250017178
Kindle: B008RLWC8W
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Fiction Family Life | Historical
You’re the author of the greatest plays of all time.
But nobody knows.
And if it gets out, you’re dead.
On May 30, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern
brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now Christopher
Marlowe reveals the truth: that his "death" was an elaborate ruse to avoid
a conviction of heresy; that he was spirited across the English Channel to
live on in lonely exile; that he continued to write plays and poetry,
hiding behind the name of a colorless man from Stratford—one William
Shakespeare.
With the grip of a thriller and the emotional force of a sonnet, this
remarkable novel in verse gives voice to a man who was brilliant,
passionate, and mercurial. A cobbler's son who counted nobles among his
friends, a spy in the Queen's service, a fickle lover and a declared
religious skeptic, Christopher Marlowe always courted trouble. Memoir, love letter, confession, and settling of accounts, The Marlowe
Papers brings Christopher Marlowe and his era to vivid life.
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