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Dark Renaissance The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

Stephen Greenblatt

A In 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 of government censorship and religious authoritarianism comes an ambitious c...

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Greenblatt's work was highlighted for its erudition in bringing the English Renaissance to life.

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Stephen Greenblatt's dark renaissance invokes the somewhat devilish figure of playwright Christopher Marlowe; I can think of nobody who brings the world of the English renaissance to life with the ver...

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Greenblatt's work was highlighted for its erudition in bringing the English Renaissance to life.

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Stephen Greenblatt's dark renaissance invokes the somewhat devilish figure of playwright Christopher Marlowe; I can think of nobody who brings the world of the English renaissance to life with the verb and erudition of Greenblatt here.

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