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Dark Renaissance

Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. This is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe - Shakespeare's inspiration and rival, who helped to bring England out of the cultural darkness and into the light.'Sparkling, addictive reading' MAGGIE O'FARRELL'A dazzling account of a dazzling life' STEPHEN FRY'As evocative as any novel' PHILIPPA GREGORY'Riveting' BEN ELTON**AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**In brutally repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened; 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 - which to him is a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous scepticism.What 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 many others, including his contemporary and collaborator William Shakespeare. By the time of his murder in a Deptford tavern in 1593, the 29-year-old Marlowe will be the most celebrated dramatist of his time.Stephen Greenblatt grippingly reconstructs the involvement with the queen's spy service that shaped Marlowe's brief, troubling life and helped fashion his masterpieces. Along the way we discover how the people Marlowe knew, and the transformations they wrought, gave birth to the economic, scientific, and cultural power of the modern world - involving Faustian bargains with which we reckon still.Dark Renaissance is a scintillating life of a writer whose blazing talent catapulted England from cultural backwater to crucible of creativity.'An unforgettable literary biographical tour de force' INDEPENDENT

Reynard the Fox

Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.

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Sir Walter Ralegh

Exposing the tensions and contradictions of Renaissance England, Stephen Greenblatt presents Sir Walter Ralegh as a symbol of his age-focusing on his lifelong attempt to fashion his own identity as a work of art. At moments of crisis, Ralegh was always acting out a role. The interplay between life and art animated both his actions and his writing. Greenblatt approaches Ralegh's execution, poetry and paradoxical attempt to write his History of the World to explore the Renaissance man and his many roles. Greenblatt follows Ralegh's turbulent career from his 1592 disgrace to his 1603 conviction for treason. Blending historical, literary and psychological insight, he brings vital dimension to a figure long shrouded in myth-one of the most compelling characters in his own recent Dark Renaissance. Stephen Greenblatt's Dark Renaissance (9780393882278) was praised as:"This evocative book offers a portrait of Elizabeth England: a time of paranoia, surveillance and violence, but also blistering creativity." - Economist, "Best Books of the Year""Dazzling.... [D]oes indeed at times read like something out of La Carré." - Jonathan Bate, Observer"[A] terrific read... Dark Renaissance is a thrilling, twisty tale that brilliantly captures the horror and the possibilities of that lost, crepuscular world." - Jonathan Healey, The New York Times"Since his critical debut...[Stephen] Greenblatt has understood and practiced criticism as a higher form of storytelling." - Emma Smith, Times Literary Supplement"In its sweep, pace and scholarship, this book vividly contextualises Marlowe's brilliance as a dissident thinker and a wildly innovative writer." - Will Tosh, Literary Review"An evocative new biography." - The Economist"An unforgettable literary biographical tour de force." - Robert McCrum, Independent"Stephen Greenblatt's attempt to reconstruct the playwright's story is brilliant." - John Mullan, New Statesman

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Dunkle Renaissance

Für alle, die packend erzählte Geschichte lieben: Stephen Greenblatt entführt uns in eine wilde, aufregende Zeit, in der die englische Literatur und das Theater neu erfunden wurdenDas England des 16. Jahrhunderts war eine brutale Welt, geprägt von politischen Intrigen, religiösen Kämpfen und grassierenden Seuchen. Und dennoch wurde das elisabethanische Zeitalter zu einer überragenden Blütezeit der englischen Literatur. Ihr Wegbereiter war Christopher Marlowe: Im gleichen Jahr wie William Shakespeare wurde er als Sohn eines Schusters geboren. Allen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz erkämpfte er sich ein Stipendium in Cambridge, ließ sich in den Spionagedienst der Königin verwickeln und schuf einige der spektakulärsten Meisterwerke der englischen Literatur, bevor er im Alter von nur 29 Jahren unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kam. Mitreißend erzählt Pulitzer-Preisträger Stephen Greenblatt vom kurzen, bewegten Leben Christopher Marlowes. Er zeigt ihn als einen Getriebenen, einen Mann voll unbezähmbarer Neugier, mit Lust auf das Fremde und einem Hang zur Selbstzerstörung, der gerade deshalb Revolutionäres denken und Außergewöhnliches schaffen konnte. 'Ein großartiges Buch. Es beschwört die Angst und Gefahr des späten elisabethanischen Englands herauf, wo Grafen vergiftet werden und niemandem zu trauen ist, am allerwenigsten der Regierung. Die Handlung ist so spannend wie ein Spionageroman ... ¿Dunkle Renaissance¿ ist eine packende Geschichte voller Wendungen, die den Schrecken und die Hoffnungen dieser verlorenen, düsteren Welt brillant einfängt.' (The New York Times)Ausstattung: mit 10 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen

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Shakespeare. Una vita nel teatro

Verso la fine del Cinquecento un giovanotto di provincia si trasferisce a Londra: non è ricco di famiglia, non ha conoscenze importanti, non ha studiato all'università. Il suo nome è William Shakespeare, e in un arco di tempo straordinariamente breve diventa il drammaturgo più importante di tutti i tempi. Le sue opere attirano colti cittadini londinesi e analfabeti che per la prima volta andavano a teatro. Fa ridere e piangere il pubblico, trasforma la politica in poesia, mescola arditamente beffe volgari e sottigliezze filosofiche. Cattura con uguale profondità gli aspetti più intimi della vita dei sovrani come di quella dei mendicanti, e allo stesso tempo mima senza fatica gli accenti dei goffi villani e si diverte con i racconti delle vecchie comari. Raccogliendo con perizia indizi, tracce e ipotesi, Stephen Greenblatt, oggi il massimo studioso mondiale di teatro elisabettiano, dipinge del Bardo un ritratto colto, ricostruendo ad arte la vita di uno scrittore capace come nessun altro di creare nomi e parole per le nostre passioni di uomini, e di dare corpo e immagine a sentimenti potenti e universali, con versi imperituri che a quattro secoli di distanza ancora non smettono di stupirci, di interrogarci, di rivelarci chi siamo.

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Ikinci Sanslar

Oyun oynamayi bilenlerin bildigi bir sir vardir Her oyun, oyuncunun yenilgi ihtimalini, kosullardan bagimsiz olarak, kendi icinde tasir. Cünkü oyunun basi da sonu da daima sansa baglidir. Ilk sans ailedir- daha dogrusu, insanin icine firlatildigi cevreyle kurdugu iliskilerden neset eden zoraki oyundur. Ikinci sans ise kaybin ve yenilginin telafisini; gecmise ve gelecege es zamanli duyulan bir özlemin doyumunu icerir. Ikinci Sanslarin anlattigi hikayenin sahiden basladigi nokta burasidir Dünyamiz neredeyse bütünüyle ikinci sanslardan örülmüs gibidir. Phillips ve Greenblatt ikinci sansi bu sekilde kavramsallastirabilmek icin Shakespeare edebiyatindan ve Freudcu psikanaliz geleneginden yararlanir.Shakespeare birinci ve ikinci sanslarin yazaridir Komedyalarinda mucizevi bir imkanin gercekligini, ilk sansa geri dönüsün yine sansa baglanan sarkisini söylerken; tragedyalarinda ise insanin hem birinci hem de ikinci sanslarini yitirmesinin ibret verici hikayesini anlatir. Freud ve takipcileri düsünce sahnesine tam da buradan giris yapar Cocuk gelisimi basli basina birbirini takip eden ikinci sanslardan ibaret degil midir Sonsuzlugun uzaminda kac kez cinlarsa cinlasin, yeniden denemek daima ikinci sans gibi hissettirmeyecek midir Acaba basina ne gelir de insan kendi ikinci sanslarina düsman kesilirAma iste iyi oyuncunun bildigi sir da budur zaten Marifet oynamakta degil, her seferinde oyuna geri dönebilecek gücü bulabilmektedir.