It’s great reading a book where you’re not 100% sure what the author thought of his subject; it makes you not 100% what you think of the book. As you can’t tell from the title, Dark Renaissance is about Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare contemporary who had a brilliant albeit brief career, dying at the age of 29 during an alleged brawl over a bill. There is not a whole lot of information about Marlowe available (even the possible sole portrait of Marlowe has not been actually […]
“Why should you love him whom the world hates so? Because he love me more than all the world.”
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt