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LITERARY HISTORY
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival
by Stephen Greenblatt
Quick, name the playwright who sparked the English Renaissance. Hint: It wasn’t Shakespeare. In this thrilling and twisty tale, Greenblatt — the Pulitzer-winning Harvard scholar known for bringing 16th-century England to life — turns his attention to Christopher Marlowe, the shoemaker’s son who secured his fame with notoriously provocative plays like “Tamburlaine the Great” and “Doctor Faustus.” With a denouement as propulsive as that of any spy novel, Greenblatt’s terrific book brilliantly captures the horror and the possibilities of that lost world. Read our review.
Literary fiction
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