Free Download Stephen Greenblatt, "Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival"
English | ISBN: 0393882276 | 2025 | 352 pages | MOBI | 4 MB
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Poor boy. Spy. Transgressor. Genius.
In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world of government censorship and religious authoritarianism comes an ambitious cobbler's son from Canterbury with a daring desire to be known―and an uncanny ear for Latin poetry. A torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, like Christopher Marlowe, a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous skepticism.
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