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Shakespeare’s biographers, from first to last
EMMA SMITH
John Marlowe, a shoemaker from Canterbury, died in 1605. His son Christopher had failed to follow him into the trade, choosing the more unreliable life of playwright, poet and jobbing spy. It had been
Tactful notes from a literary self-promoter
Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the
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Goethe’s achievement as artist, scientist and statesman
Late stories of a self-styled ‘arguer with the world’