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Daniel Swift reviews two new books, one non-fiction, one fiction, on the life of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, for The Nation:

http://www.thenation...0050321&s=swift

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It is precisely this combination of ordinary and extraordinary activities [of Marlowe’s career], played out in a single life, that makes Marlowe a fascinating, and yet impossible, biographical subject.

He also mentions that two new biographies of Shakespeare are in the works.

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John Gross, author of "Shylock," one of my favorite Shakespeare books, reviews new Shakespeare books by Stephen Greenblatt and Marjorie Garber, for Commentary:


http://www.commentar...?aid=11903059_1