Poet, playwright, spy: Stephen Greenblatt conjures the brilliant life of Christopher Marlowe

By Kate Flaherty, Senior Lecturer (English and Drama), Australian National University

In Dark Renaissance, his new biography of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), Stephen Greenblatt shares a trait with Marlowe and the Elizabethan playwright’s most famous character, Doctor Faustus: a desire to conjure.

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