As the title suggests, Stephen Greenblatt’s new book isn’t so much an exhaustive biography of Christopher Marlowe as an expert rendering of the world he lived in. Dark Renaissance, The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival is
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For centuries those who questioned William Shakespeare’s sexuality were silenced by two simple facts: he married Anne Hathaway and fathered three children with her. Case closed, right? It is only in recent years–with the decline of the heterosexual presumption–that a
The Queer Lit world is still in shock at the news that the great Queer author, Edmund White has passed. Only his husband, Michael Carroll, and a few close friends knew that the end was near. Mr. White had been
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Don’t be deceived by the title, Edmund White’s latest book, The Loves of My Life, A Sex Memoir, is an important volume of Queer History. By chronicling his sex life–so far–this great octogenarian author gives us deep insights about
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