Christopher Marlowe

When S/hakespeare came to London, Marlowe at 23 was a master of the stage. Six years later he was dead. His reckless, passionate, arrogant and marvelously gifted life ended tragically in a tavern brawl. The author recreates with sympathy and detail this turbulent man, his boyhood in Canterbury, his Cambridge years, the triumph of Tamburlaine and the innovations of his poetry, his dark involvements and rivalry with Shakespeare, tangles with the law and more. With 220 pages, indexed.