Hamlet in Purgatory
5 best books like Hamlet in Purgatory (Stephen Greenblatt): Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, The White Card: A Play, Shakespeare the Thinker, Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner, The World of Christopher Marlowe
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
| Author | Eric Metaxas |
| ISBN | 1595551387 |
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer--a pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual...
| Author | Claudia Rankine |
| ISBN | 1555978398 |
A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of
Citizen
The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements,...
| Author | A.D. Nuttall |
| ISBN | 0300119283 |
A. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the distinguished career of a Shakespeare scholar. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity...
| Author | Franny Moyle |
| ISBN | 0670922692 |
The extraordinary life of J. M. W. Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his...
| Author | David Riggs |
| ISBN | 0805080368 |
"Riggs brings it all together brilliantly, assembling all evidence of Marlowe's life and adding to that a wider and deeper focus . . . Superb."--Los Angeles Times
The World of Christopher Marlowe is the story of the troubled genius, raised in the stench and poverty of Canterbury's abbatoirs,...
