Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Park Honan. Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xvi + 422 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. $23. ISBN: 978-0-19-923269-7.

Like Doctor Faustus, we are "glutted ... with learning's golden gifts." After waiting since the 1940s, students of Christopher Marlowe now have three substantial biographies to dine on: Park Honan's Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy has joined Constance Kuriyama's Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life (2002) and David Riggs's The World of Christopher Marlowe (2004) on the bookshelves. Each study has ...

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