Stephen Greenblatt with Geoffrey Harpham - Dark Renaissance
Sat, Nov 15 at 5pm
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt reconstructs the scandalous and subversive life of the sexually reckless rock star of Elizabethan theatre Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare’s greatest rival, and explores his transgressive genius. A poet and a playwright—Tamburlaine and Faustus are dramatic masterpieces about the perils of power—Marlowe was a spy in the Queen’s service accused of heresy and blasphemy owing to his provocative anti-church writings. His mysterious death, murdered in a London inn at the age of 29, adds to his mythological status.
Stephen Greenblatt investigates Marlowe’s daring life and violent death, and his impact on Elizabethan culture, with Geoffrey Harpham, Emeritus Director of National Humanities Center.
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