The Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe is known as Shakespeare’s greatest rival. But in his new book Dark Renaissance, historian Stephen Greenblatt makes the case that Marlowe paved the way ...
In the 1990s, the literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt had a visit from Marc Norman. The screenwriter was planning a script about the life of William Shakespeare and wanted advice. Forget Shakespeare, ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to author Stephen Greenblatt about Dark Renaissance, which explores the life of Christopher Marlowe — the playwright he describes as "Shakespeare's greatest rival." The new ...