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Book review: Dark Renaissance: The dangerous times and fatal genius of Shakespeare’s greatest rival, Christopher Marlowe by Stephen Greenblatt

Book review: Dark Renaissance: The dangerous times and fatal genius of Shakespeare’s greatest rival, Christopher Marlowe by Stephen Greenblatt

Thursday, November 27, 2025
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, the son of a Canterbury shoemaker, was a genius of the English Renaissance. For Stephen Greenblatt, Marlowe was the genius. Atheist, spy, homosexual, and an innovative and liberating poet, Marlowe seems to have spent his life ...