While their imagined relationship owes something to that between Mephistopheles and Faustus, the play’s intimate prose could hardly be further from Marlowe’s hyperbolic flash and thunder. Marlowe has ...

Tony winner Jefferson Mays stars in a new revival of Peter Shaffer's 'Amadeus,' directed by Tony-winner Darko Tresnjak, at Pasadena Playhouse.

From his plays that shocked Elizabethan England to his brutal murder, Christopher Marlowe's short, dazzling life was defined by rivalry, scandals and secrets. Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Professor ...

Contains some scenes of a sexual nature and scenes of sexual violence. Available for over a year From his plays that shocked Elizabethan England to his brutal murder, Christopher Marlowe's short, ...

Stephen Greenblatt won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for “The Swerve” and is a New York Times best-selling author of “Will in the World.” Greenblatt is editor of both “The Norton Anthology of English ...

I very much enjoyed Anthony Lane’s gleeful review of Stephen Greenblatt’s new biography of Christopher Marlowe (Books, September 15th). Lane reminds us that Marlowe took the plot of his play “Dido, ...

THE Phoenix is celebrating Christopher Marlowe’s four-hundredth birthday by swamping his masterpiece in stunts and endless prancing and monkeyshines. In its elaborate, not to say fussy, production of ...

The Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is known as Shakespeare’s greatest rival. But in his new book Dark Renaissance, historian Stephen Greenblatt makes the case that Marlowe paved the way ...

The English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as his frenemy William Shakespeare. Yet unless you majored in English in college, it is quite possible you never ...

Stephen Greenblatt, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky about his book Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius o Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, recorded September 11, 2025. Stephen ...

Stephen Greenblatt, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky about his book Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius o Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, recorded September 11, 2025. Stephen ...