A Dead Man in Deptford (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anthony Burgess
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1580-1593
- Setting: England and France
- Principal Characters: Christopher “Kit” Marlowe, Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Walsingham, Thomas Walsingham, Ingram Frizer, Jack Wilson
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Politics, Authors or writers, Literature, Religion, Poetry or poets, Fortune-telling or fortune-tellers, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Espionage or spies
- Locales: France, England
Master storyteller Anthony Burgess returns to a subject that has fascinated him for more than fifty years in this astonishing historical novel of the life and death of Christopher Marlowe. The sketchy facts of the playwright’s life are few. Two biographies of Marlowe written in the twentieth century build upon those slender facts and add to them avowed speculation about his highly controversial life. Burgess artfully draws upon biography and speculation, contemporary events and remarks, historical possibilities and plausibilities to present a supposed Marlowe of his own creation, a...
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