{"product_id":"dark-renaissance","title":"Dark Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWill in the World\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the daring and subversive life of Christopher Marlowe – Shakespeare’s contemporary, inspiration, and rival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e’A rigorous and sparkling exploration of what makes an artist …. Essential and addictive reading’ MAGGIE O''FARRELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn brutally repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world comes an ambitious cobbler’s son from Canterbury with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry – a torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous scepticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Christopher Marlowe finds on the other side of that door, and what he does with it, brings about a spectacular explosion of English literature, language, and culture, enabling the success of his collaborator and rival, William Shakespeare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith propulsive narrative flair and brilliant literary criticism, Stephen Greenblatt reconstructs the youthful involvement with the queen’s spy service that shaped Marlowe’s brief, troubling life and gave us his \u003ci\u003eTamburlaine and Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e – dramatic masterpieces on power and its costs. And with detailed historical insight, Greenblatt explores how the people Marlowe knew, and the transformations they wrought, birthed the economic, scientific, and cultural power of the modern world – involving Faustian bargains with which we reckon still.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57399098966398,"sku":"NW9781847927132","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781847927132.jpg?v=1778621799","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/dark-renaissance","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}