The World of Christopher Marlowe
9 best books like The World of Christopher Marlowe (David Riggs): Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare the Thinker, Shakespeare's Wife, Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner, The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts, Hamlet in Purgatory, Zen in the Martial Arts
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...
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
| Author | Mary Norris |
| ISBN | 1324001275 |
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to...
| Author | Charles Nicholl |
| ISBN | 0226580245 |
In 1593 the brilliant but controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account—a violent quarrel over the bill, or "recknynge"—has been long regarded as dubious.
Here, in a tour de force...
| 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 | Germaine Greer |
| ISBN | 0747591709 |
A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway's rightful place in history.
Little is known about the wife of the world's most famous playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare's will...
| 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 | Issai Chozanshi |
| ISBN | 4770030185 |
The Demon said to the swordsman, "Fundamentally, man's mind is not without good. It is simply that from the moment he has life, he is always being brought up with perversity. Thus, having no idea that he has gotten used to being soaked in it, he harms his self-nature and falls into evil. Human desire is the...
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0691102570 |
Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative...
| Author | Joe Hyams |
| ISBN | 0553275593 |
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."-- "Samurai Maximum."Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly recounts his more than 25 years of experience in the martial arts. In his illuminating story, Hyam reveals...
