Not much is known about the great Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, the legendary Elizabethan poet-playwright who was as enigmatic as he was prodigiously gifted. Biographies about him have been censored, colored by the secret service for which he worked. Published accounts of his life are inaccurate – laced with legend, full of holes, and shrouded in mystery.
Was his reported death in 1593 actually just a hoax? Was he responsible for writing the plays that are known today as Shakespeare’s works?
Marlowe Up Close comprehensively reveals the last half of Marlowe’s life: twenty-nine years filled with high adventure, touching dramatic writings, his mentors, employers and friends, lovers, wives and children and the most difficult kind of loyal service to England.
A hefty volume at 688 pages, this masterful work contains many important facts that are missing from every previous biography of Marlowe. For the first time, many events in his life now appear, masterfully fused from increments of factual evidence, and beautifully corroborated by surprising steganographic messages created by the man himself — a peerless writer and ghost of all the Shakespeare works.
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ISBN13 (TP) 978-1-4257-4380-2
ISBN13 (HB) 978-1-4257-4381-9