History Play: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe. Rodney Bolt

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Dedication

       For my parents

Epigraph

      About anyone so great as Shakespeare, it is probable that we can never be right; and if we can never be right, it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong.

      T. S. ELIOT

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Foreword

PROLOGUE A Dead Man in Deptford

PART I

CHAPTER ONE Prefaces to Shakespeare

CHAPTER TWO Une Histoire Inventée

CHAPTER THREE Catch My Soul

CHAPTER FOUR Gentlemen of a Company

       Interlude

       PART II

       CHAPTER FIVE West Side Story

       CHAPTER SIX Gypsy Soul

       CHAPTER SEVEN Men of Respect

       CHAPTER EIGHT Shakespeare in Love

       CHAPTER NINE Theatre of Blood

       CHAPTER TEN The Mousetrap

       CHAPTER ELEVEN The Reckoning

       Interlude

       PART III

       CHAPTER TWELVE His Exits and His Entrances

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN In the Bleak Midwinter

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN Renaissance Man

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN Under the Mask

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN Themes and Variations

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Prospero’s Books

       Afterword

       Appendices

       Notes and References

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Praise

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

Foreword

      How curious and interesting is the parallel – as far as poverty of biographical details is concerned – between Satan and Shakespeare. It is wonderful, it is unique, it stands quite alone, there is nothing resembling it in history, nothing resembling it in romance, nothing approaching it even in tradition. They are the best-known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet. By way of a preamble to this book, I should like to set down a list of every positively known fact of Shakespeare’s life, lean and meagre as the invoice is. Beyond these details we know not a thing about him. All the rest of his vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures – a tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.

      FACTS

      He was born on the 23rd of April, 1564.

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