Christopher Marlowe

Reading is an ongoing conversation between the writer and the reader.

Comfortably Numb: Medicine in Richard II

“Hello? Is there anybody in there?”  Richard II is too comfortably numb to listen to deathbed advice from his dissenting uncle.

‘you ought to be able to do this – and enjoy the process – for any text’. Challenge accepted!

Filial disobedience arrives as suddenly as a dandelion on your lawn – but by the time you see the flower, the roots are long established.

Live fast, die young, and press as many people’s emotional buttons as you can on the way. Marlowe’s heroes test boundaries as much as he did.