What Marlowe would have wanted
Charles Nicholl, 26 November 1987
Faustus and the Censor
by William Empson, edited by John Henry Jones.
Blackwell, 226 pp., £17.50, September 1987,0 631 15675 5 Show More
by William Empson, edited by John Henry Jones.
Blackwell, 226 pp., £17.50, September 1987,
“... as Dee put it. We are entering here that arena of controversy which the studies of the late Frances Yates illuminated so brilliantly. This arena was as much political as philosophical, and the threat (as it was perceived) of occultist-oriented cliques like Ralegh’s ‘Durham House set’ was taken very seriously. We know that Marlowe was ... ”