Dark Renaissance : The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher MarloweAuthor: Greenblatt, Stephen London, Greater London Published on 11 September 2025 by Vintage Publishing (The Bodley Head Ltd) in the United Kingdom. Hardback 352 pages 163 x 243 x 34 560g Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. This is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe Shakespeares inspiration and rival, who helped to bring England out of the cultural darkness and into the light. Sparkling, addictive reading'

and teaching too

he learns that the afterlife is not a destination

war and corruption

Published on 10 August 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (Head of Zeus) in the United Kingdom

learning all the while the depth and surprising truths of the alethiometer

197 x 130 x 20 | 434g

who wants to go back home

Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the Titanic

Beacon Hill and Boston Common

eating out and sightseeing

with its edge-of-your-seat pace

we are not hysterics or boiling vats of toxic poisons