The new book "Dark Renaissance" is a true story of spies, counterfeiters, betrayal and murder. It's about the short life of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's greatest rival. And the ...

At Jaipur Literature Festival 2026, Pulitzer winner Stephen Greenblatt revisited the short, incendiary life of Christopher ...

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 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 ...

When visualizing Elizabethan England, the mind’s eye tends to summon associated grandeur. The reality is that if you were a ...

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 ...