Review of Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy.(Book review)

Publication: Early Modern Literary Studies

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Matthew Steggle

Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. 421pp. ISBN 19 818695 9.

Andrew Duxfield

Sheffield Hallam University

Duxfield, Andrew. "Review of Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy." Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) 12.1-4 .



While documentary evidence regarding the facts of Christopher Marlowe's life is fairly thin on the ground, there is no such paucity of substantial works dedicated to making sense of what evidence there is. Park Honan's new book is the latest addition to a long and steady stream of Marlowe biography; the last four years alone have seen notable works on the life of the Canterbury dramatist and poet in the shape of Constance Brown Kuriyama's Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life (2002) and David Riggs's The World of Christopher Marlowe (2004).

"My aim," Honan writes in his introduction, "has been...

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