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608 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
'I am not trying to argue that Marlowe's death has to have a meaning. My reading tends only to a more complex kind of meaninglessness than that of a 'tavern brawl'.
'His life he contemned in comparison of the liberty of speech'
'Marlowe enters this devious, predatory company because he was himself a devious, predatory young man.'
he wistly look'd on me,
And who should say, 'I would thou wert the man'
That would divorce this terror from my heart;'
Meaning the king at Pomfret. Come, let's go:
I am the king's friend, and will rid his foe. [a]