Posthumous Gentleman
Michael Dobson: Kit Marlowe’s Schooldays, 19 August 2004
The World of Christopher Marlowe
by David Riggs.
Faber, 411 pp., £25, May 2004,0 571 22159 9 Show More
by David Riggs.
Faber, 411 pp., £25, May 2004,
Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines: Journeys through the Elizabethan Underground
by Roy Kendall.
Fairleigh Dickinson, 453 pp., $75, January 2004,0 8386 3974 7 Show More
by Roy Kendall.
Fairleigh Dickinson, 453 pp., $75, January 2004,
History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe
by Rodney Bolt.
HarperCollins, 388 pp., £17.99, July 2004,0 00 712123 7 Show More
by Rodney Bolt.
HarperCollins, 388 pp., £17.99, July 2004,
“... with Mephistopheles that makes grammar-school wet dreams a reality in the form of a fling with Helen of Troy; but instead of achieving world domination, Faustus dwindles into a showman who whiles away the time before his damnation providing harmless entertainment for kings and emperors. Piers Gaveston, who similarly enchants a king by ‘Sweet ... ”