About the Book:

Wunderkind playwright, killed in a brawl in Deptford at twenty-nine possibly over his role as a spy, Marlowe's life and work have long captivated lovers of literature. Critic Stephen Greenblatt's new account of Marlowe's colourful life sheds light on this enigmatic figure, and reads with the pace of a novel.

About the Author:

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning. A prize-winning author and celebrated scholar, he has been studying, thinking and writing about Renaissance literature for his entire working life.