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Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy by Prof. Park Honan.

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy by Prof. Park Honan (Paperback)

  • Publication Details: Oxford University Press, August 2007.
  • Details: Paperback. 448 pages.
  • ISBN-10: 0-19-923269-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923269-7
  • Summary: See hardback summary and reviews below.
  • Website Link: OUP Publication Details
  • Buy Online: See Marlowe Society biographies page with links to buy online.
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy by Prof. Park Honan.

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy by Prof. Park Honan (Hardback)

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication Date: 27 October 2005
  • Details: Hardcover. 448 pages.
  • ISBN-10: 0-19-818695-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818695-3
  • Reviews: London Review of Books by John Bossy (and Park Honan's Reply); New York Times by Michael Feingold; New York Review of Books by Stephen Greenblatt.
  • Summary: An authoritative and highly readable account of Marlowe's life and works up until his recorded death in 1593 by Professor Park Honan (a Marlowe Society Vice-President), which also unearths new documentary evidence relating to Ingram Frizer following his release.
  • Website Link: Reviewed by Roger Hards in Marlowe Society Newsletter 26
  • Buy Online: See Marlowe Society biographies page with links to buy online.
Doctor Faustus (1967) starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

DVD Release: Doctor Faustus (1967)

  • DVD Release Date: 02 March 2004
  • Studio: Sony Pictures
  • Running Time: 92 minutes.
  • Starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and the Oxford University Players
  • Directors: Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill.
  • Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only, or may play on "region-free" DVD players).
  • Buy Online: Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com
  • Summary: Richard Burton stars as the aging scholar who makes a deal with the devil for youth, knowledge, and a dazzling mistress. Taylor plays the spellbinding seductress who seals Faustus' fate.
  • Website Link: Doctor Faustus at IMDB for summary, cast, plot, trivia and quotes.
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